Basics
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Harry S. Truman
This one word summarized U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
Containment
Where was the first Atomic Bomb tested?
The Trinity Testing Site, New Mexico
Joseph McCarthy was a Senator from which state?
Wisconsin
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin
The Berlin Wall
What is Communism?
An economic system in which the government has complete control over the means of production of major industries in the name of an entirely equal society.
The military organization formed by the United States and it's allies.
NATO
The idea that any nuclear war would result in the annihilation of both societies, regardless of who struck first.
Mutually Assured Destruction
Most Americans believed that communists were trying to:
Infiltrate out government and destroy the American way of life from the inside out, through espionage and clandestine activities.
What was the name of the Communist leader who lead the successful Chinese Civil War in the late 1940's?
Mao Zedong
These two postwar conferences shaped the division of Europe after World War II.
Yalta and Potsdam
This U.S. policy promised aid to countries resisting communist influence.
The Truman Doctrine
Tested in 1952 by the U.S., this type of bomb was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
(Type of bomb, not specific names)
The Hydrogen Bomb
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency to search for, and interrogate, communists in the U.S.
The House Un-American Activities Committee. (HUAC)
On January 24, 1961, a B-52 bomber carrying 2 nuclear bombs ran out of fuel, and crashed. The bombs nearly detonated. Which state did they crash in?
North Carolina
What year did the Cold War officially start?
1947
This economic program sought to stabilize Europe to prevent the spread of communism.
The Marshall Plan
In the 1950s, this animated character taught American children to "Duck and Cover" in the event of a nuclear attack.
Bert the Turtle
For "behavior unbecoming a U.S. senator" McCarthy was _________________ by the Senate.
Censured
This foreign policy strategy was implemented by President Dwight Eisenhower, and emphasized the development and deployment of more advanced and more numerous nuclear weapons in an effort to cut military spending
Eisenhower's "New Look"
What year did the Cold War officially end?
1991
How did economic aid and alliances help stop the spread of communism? (In theory)
A country that has less money/security/is unstable is more likely to adopt communist ideas.
What is Deterrence?
The idea that war can be prevented if the cost of fighting is too high to justify any possible gain.
In the Nuclear Age, deterrence meant convincing rivals that any nuclear attack would be met with devastating retaliation.
Explain how the McCarthyism period affected the country, and the people who live in it.
Multiple answers accepted
The Truman Doctrine was issued originally to help these two nations in their attempt to resist Communism.
Greece and Turkey