Countries that are dependent on the Soviet Union. They have governments organized and ran by communists. These include Hungary, Romania, and Poland.
Satellite Nations
100
Communist leader and revolutionary in China during the early stages of the Cold War.
Mao Zedong
100
Committee created in the U.S. to seek out disloyalty before WWII. First made headlines in 1947 when investigating the film industry.
HUAC
House Committee of Un American Activities
100
Soviet counterpart to NATO. Soviet Military Alliance
Warsaw Pact
100
Name of first unmanned artificial satellite launched into orbit of earth.
Sputnik
200
An American effort and policy to block the Soviets attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries.
Containment
200
War started in 1950 because communist North Korea invaded Democratic North Korea, the U.S. is later involved in supporting South Korea.
Korean War
200
Ten unfriendly witnesses from the North American film industry who refused to answer HUAC questions. Sent to prison.
Hollywood Ten
200
Successor to Joseph Stalin.
Nikita Krushchev
200
failed invasion of Cuba authorized by President Kennedy
Bay of Pigs Invasion
300
A series of flights that would drop food and supplies into West Berlin due to a Soviet blockade of Berlin.
Berlin Airlift
300
North Korean capitol
Pyongyang
300
In response to the Hollywood Ten, the film industry created a ________, which prohibited alleged communist supporters from acting.
Blacklist
300
policy by which the U.S. would use any and all force against any aggressor nation.
brinkmanship
300
Longtime Communist leader of Cuba
Fidel Castro
400
A defensive organization formed by Western countries that promised if one was attacked, the others would come to their aide.
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
400
Parallel that separates North and South Korea. Not the official border, but was the border after WWII.
38th Parallel
400
Launches a "witch hunt" in congress, accusing government officials of being communists.
Joseph McCarthy
400
U.S. agency that uses covert operations and spies to get intelligence.
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
400
Developed by the U.S. in 1952 and developed by the Soviet Union in 1953. Research authorized by Harry Truman.
Hydrogen Bomb
500
1947 policy made by the president pledging aide to countries who were opposing communism.
Truman Doctrine
500
Nationalist Leader of China after WWII.
Chiang Kai-Shek
500
Husband and wife who were accused of passing information to the Soviet Union which supposedly allowed them to create an atomic bomb 18 months ahead of schedule. They were later executed in 1953.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
500
Name of pilot who was shot down over Soviet airspace in the famous U-2 incident.
Francis Gary Powers
500
Cartoons, books, magazines, and posters that vilify a foreign enemy and promote support of Nationalism