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The Cold War Begins
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The phrase "Iron Curtain" was said in a speech by this man.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
This event starts the Korean War.
What is North Korea invading South Korea?
100
The Soviet Union did this on September 2, 1949.
What is tested an atomic bomb?
100
Fear of Communism.
What is the Red Scare?
100
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania are examples of this kind of state that was controlled by the Soviet Union.
What is a satellite state?
200
This plan provided aid to the countries in Europe devastated by World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This general led US troops in the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
Both sides would be destroyed in a war.
What is Mutally Assured Destruction?
200
Term for reckless, extreme charges.
What is McCarthyism?
200
The President of this country threatened to nationalize the Suez canal after the US withdrew the offer to fund it.
What is Egypt?
300
The man who came up with the Containment policy.
Who is George Kennan.
300
The US backed this party and this party leader in China's civil war.
What is the Nationalist Party and Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)?
300
Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, promoted the idea of this.
What is Brinkmanship?
300
This scientist who worked on the Atomic bomb was denied access to classified information because he had ties to people in the Communist party.
Who is Oppenheimer?
300
This couple was executed for giving American secrets to the Soviets.
Who war Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
400
The Soviet Union set up a blockade of this city in an attempt to gain control of it.
What is West Berlin?
400
This is where the counterattack against North Korea landed.
What is Inchon?
400
This Soviet Leader was less cruel and suspicious than Stalin.
Who is Nikita Kruschev?
400
This led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy, after he accused the Army of being full of Communists.
What are televised hearings?
400
Military spending increased as a result of this conflict.
What is the Korean War?
500
This Doctrine stated that the US would aid any country struggling against Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
Americans saw General MacArthur as this after being fired.
What is a hero?
500
The doctrine that the US would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by Communism.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
500
What was HUAC responsible for?
holding hearings about communist ties to the entertainment industry
500
War to achieve a goal rather than total victory.
Limited War