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Cold War Origins
U.S. Foreign Policy
Cold War Conflicts
Red Scare & McCarthyism
50s Life
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$100: This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.

  • → What is containment?
100

$100: This doctrine gave aid to Greece and Turkey.

  • → What is the Truman Doctrine?
100

$100: This war began in 1950 when the North invaded the South.

  • → What is the Korean War?
100

$100: This committee investigated suspected communists.

  • → What is HUAC?
100

$100: This bill helped veterans with education and housing.

  • → What is the GI Bill?
200

$200: He was the first president to utilize the idea of containment.

--> Who was Harry Truman?

200

$200: This plan helped rebuild Western Europe economically.

  • → What is the Marshall Plan?
200

$200: The dividing line between North and South Korea.

  • → What is the 38th Parallel?
200

$200: This program checked federal employees for loyalty.

  • → What is the Loyalty Program (Executive Order 9835)?
200

$200: This term describes the rapid population growth after WWII.

  • → What is the Baby Boom?
300

$300: This term described the division between Eastern and Western Europe.

  • → What is the Iron Curtain?
300

$300: This 1947 act created the CIA and Department of Defense.

  • → What is the National Security Act?
300

$300: This general led UN forces in Korea.

  • → Who is Douglas MacArthur?
300

$300: This senator led the anti-communist crusade.

  • → Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300

$300: These mass-produced suburban homes were built by the Levitts.

  • → What is Levittown?
400

$400: This British leader warned about the Iron Curtain.

  • → Who is Winston Churchill?
400

$500: This alliance stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

What is NATO?

400

$400: This organization meddled in Egypt, Latin America, and Iran.

  • → What is the CIA?
400

$400: These Hollywood figures were blacklisted for suspected communist ties.

  • → Who are the Hollywood Ten?
400

$400: This 1956 act funded a national highway system.

  • → What is the Interstate Highway Act?
500

$500: Stalin wanted these countries to act as protection for the USSR.

  • → What are buffer states? 
500

$400: What is NSC-68?

  • → This document called for increased military spending during the Cold War.
500

$500: This country intervened in Korea against the U.S.

  • → What is China? 
500

$500: This concept described nuclear war where both sides would be destroyed.

  • → What is mutual assured destruction (MAD)? 
500

$500: This 1960 incident involved a U.S. spy plane shot down over the USSR.

  • → What is the U-2 Incident?