U.S. History Review Cold War

Cold War Policy

100

Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, Over the next four years, Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy.

What was the Marshall Plan?

200

A US president asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece. He told Congress: "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures . . .

What was the Truman Doctrine?

300

in July 1947, George F. Kennan defined the central goal of U.S. foreign policy during the cold war verse communism:

What was containment?

400

The policy that JFK practiced when dealing with the USSR, convincing the opposition that he was willing to use any and all resources/tactics to win the war. 

Brinkmanship

500

These two policies were enacted by the last premier of the Soviet Union and allowed more transparency and a restructuring of the political/economic system. 

Perestroika and Glastnost

Cold War Events

100

These two conferences were responsible for determining the outlook of a post-WWII Gerrmany, and more importantly, Europe as a whole. Included provisions about free and fair elections  and more.  

Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

200

This conflict was the closest the two superpowers ever came to nuclear war after the USSR installed nuclear weapons on an island near the US. 

Cuban Missile Crisis

300

This conflict was between the Soviet-backed forces to the north and the pro-Western forces to the south. 

They eventually negotiated an armistice around which geographical landmark. 

2 answers

What was Korean War and the 38th parallel. 

400

In 1948, the Russians closed all highways, railroads and canals into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.

What was Berlin Airlift?

500

In 1960, an American reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Gary Powers was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile while conducting a covert mission over Soviet territory. The incident heightened Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

U-2 Spy Incident

More Cold War

100

a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe

What was The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

200

A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.

What was the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact)?

300

This Committee was responsible for investigating communists in America and resulted in the blacklisting of many in Hollywood. 

HUAC

400

This started the Space Race between the US and USSR.

What was Sputnik?

500

The collapse of the Soviet Union can be tied to what 4 causes?

Perestroika

Glastnost

Massive Spending

Recession

(Blank)

100

The main ideological conflict was the struggle between

Capitalism and Communism

200

A protracted conflict that took place between 1945 and 1949. This revolution ultimately led to the establishment of the largest Communist Nation on October 1, 1949, with the CCP under the leadership of Mao Zedong in control of the government.

Chinese Communist Revolution

300

A term, popularized by Winston Churchill, described the symbolic division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs during the Cold War, representing the divide between democratic and communist countries?

The Iron Curtain

400

This treaty was designed to promote transparency and reduce the risk of military conflict during the Cold War by allowing participating countries to conduct unarmed aerial reconnaissance flights over each other's territories.

Open Skies Policy

500

The name of the covert operation carried out by the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s that involved the recruitment of German scientists, including Wernher von Braun, to work on rocket technology, which later played a pivotal role in the Space Race during the Cold War?

Operation Paperclip

Important People

100

The leader of the communist nation of Cuba who survived the American Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

Fidel Castro

200

an undistinguished legislator, he became infamous because of his unsubstantiated but politically popular charges that the government was infiltrated with communist agents, he earned the dubious distinction of having his name become synonymous with character assassination and guilt by association for political gain

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

300

American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In 1995, the U.S. government released a series of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which confirmed that one of the accused acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets

Who was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

400

The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a tense confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war?

Nikita Khrushchev

500

The last leader of the Soviet Union, known for his policies of glasnost and perestroika, which led to its dissolution.

Mikhail Gorbachev