The belief that if one country fell to communism all of the other countries in the area would also fall to communism was known as?
What is domino theory
100
West Germany was initially controlled by what three allied powers from World War II?
What is US, GB, FR
100
Conflict over the future of the Korean Peninsula, fought from 1950-1953.
What is Korean War
100
The policy of risking war to protect a countries national interests is know as?
What is Brinkmanship
100
American and British airplanes supplied over 2.5 million Germans during the 1948-1949 Soviet Blockade was known as this?
What is Berlin Airlift
200
This military treaty included countries such as Great Britain, the United States, Canada and France during the Cold War
What is NATO
200
A democracy before World War II, this country was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union after World War II which upset the United States.
What is Poland
200
This line of latitude separated North and South Korea before the war?
What is 38th parallel
200
This cold war doctrine promised American support for any country in the world that was threatened by communism.
What is Truman Doctrine
200
The first meeting between Truman and Stalin happened at the __________ conference.
What is Potsdam
300
A list that employers have that contains names of people you should not hire
What is blacklist
300
What two Mediterranean countries were the first to feel the effects of the Truman Doctrine?
What is Turkey and Greece
300
This general was fired by Truman for his extreme plan to invade China and destroy it with nuclear weapons.
What is MacArthur
300
Known as the New Deal for Europe, the ________ plan helped rebuild Western Europe beginning in 1947
What is Marshall Plan
300
The Red Scare was a mixture of hysteria and paranoia famously spurred on by what US Senator?
What is McCarthy
400
Countries dominated politically and economically by the Soviet Union during the cold war
What is satellite nations
400
Daily Double: What Eastern European country was communist but was not under the control of the Soviet Union?
What is Yugoslavia
400
What was the result of the Korean War?
What is stalemate or truce
400
This policy resisted further communist expansion around the world and focused on surrounding the Soviet Union with nations friendly to the United States
What is containment
400
Who were the first two American presidents during the Cold War?
What is Truman and Eisenhower
500
The congressional committee that investigated communist influences in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s was known as _______________.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee
500
Name four countries in the Warsaw Pact besides the Soviet Union.
What is East Germany, Poland, Cz, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary,
500
What is a long range missile that is armed with a nuclear warhead?
What is ICBM
500
Policy where nations agree to protect one another from attack
What is collective secutiry
500
Who was the Soviet Union's leader after Joseph Stalin?