Origins
What year did the Russian Revolution occur, leading to the rise of Communism?
1917
What was the first MAJOR crisis of the Cold War, where the Soviets blocked all access into West Berlin?
Berlin Blockade 1948-1949
What US Senator became infamous for accusing Americans of being communist spies?
Josepg McCarthy
Who was the President of the US during the Korean War?
Harry Truman
What was the name of the first sattelite launched into space by the Soviets in 1957?
Sputnik
What was the name of the US Policy aimed at preventing communism from spreading after WWII?
Containment/ Truman Doctrine
What military and trade alliance did the US and Western Europe create in 1949?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What couple was executed in 1953 in Sing Sing Prison for being spies during the Manhattan Project?
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
What was the name of the US Secretary of State that helped come up with the Marshall Plan? (first and last)
George C Marshall
What is the term of the policy of keeping nuclear weapons to deter an attack because if you launch we launch mentality?
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
What was the name of the US program designed to rebuild Europe and prevent Communism?
Marshall Plan
What country fell to communism in 1949 under Mao Zedong?
China
What governemnt committee investigated Hollywood and accused actorsof communist ties?
HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee)
This is the revolutionary in Cuba that will help win that revolution for Castro and his forces; considered to be a true Marxist?
Che Guevara
What is the paralell that was crossed to begin the Korean Conflict? The same where it would end...
38th Paralell
Who sent the long telegram, warning the US about Soviet expansion and would lead to the policy of containment?
George Kennan (The Long Telegram)
What was the US policy that would send military aid to any country fighting communism?
Truman Doctrine
What was the name of the U2 pilot that was shot down and survived in 1960, over the Soviet Union?
What is the name of the US President that preferred amphibious assaults, as he designed several in his lifetime that were extremly sucessful?
Dwight D Eisenhower
What german city is chopped into 4 distinct zones following the end of WWII?
Berlin
What event marked the official beginning of the Cold War in 1946?
Iron Curtain Speech (Winston Churchill)
What Soviet leader replaces Stalin in 1953-1955 (ish)?
Nikita Khrushchev
This future vice president will sit on the HUAC and assist McCarthy in his "Witch Hunt"?
Richard Nixon
The leader of the Cuban Revolution and a man that the US will try to kill over 500 confirmed times?
Fidel Castro
What is the name of the first Soviet leader (leader of the Bolsheviks) who, when he dies, will hand power to Joseph Stalin?
Vladmir Lenin