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Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba.
When was 1959?
This man ran for President on the platform that he would end the Korean War.
This is what Nato stands for.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
The ICBM program by the Russians led JFK to call this race between the Americans and the Soviets.
What is the arms race?
The Bay of Pigs was a good look for the Americans, true or false.
What is false?
It was at this time that China fell to communism.
When was 1949?
He was President of the United States during the Bay of Pigs Scandal.
Who was John F Kennedy?
This is the communist version of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What is to be black-listed?
True or False.
America was indeed accused of appeasing both Hitler in WWII and the Communists in the 1940s and 50s.
What is true?
In the 1950's this US Senator sent the federal government on its head with the Red Scare, this was known as what.
What is McCarthyism?
American spies for the Soviet Union would be tried for treason and eventually executed.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
De-militarized zone between North and South Korea.
1200 Cuban exiles were sent by JFK to capture and remove Fidel Castro from power, they were all captured or killed.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Churchill, Stalin, and FDR.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The exact date that FDR died.
When was April 12, 1945?
He gave the very famous "Iron Curtain" speech in the United States.
Who is Winston Churchill?
To support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A U.S. program of economic aid to Western Europe after World War II to help rebuild war-torn economies, prevent the spread of communism, and foster political stability.
What is the Marshall Plan?
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY**
Stalin and Truman.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
When was August 29, 1949?
President Truman fired this man who went asked about stopping communism, he replied we can just nuke everyone.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This colony/country requested American intervention to help stop the spread of Communism.
What is Vietnam?
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
The chain of events, where as other countries fall to communism, more and more would fall as well.
What is the domino theory?
A Russian satellite that jump-started the Great Space Race.
What is Sputnik?