Cold War Origins
This US foreign policy, first used in 1947, aimed to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine
This war began in 1950 when Soviet & Chinese back North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
The fear that communists had infiltrated the US government caused a sensationalist movement.
What is the Red Scare?
This Cold War strategy - meaning "relaxation of tensions" - was used by Nixon and Kissinger.
What is detente?
This country saw bread lines & lack of basic necessities
What is the USSR?
The US provided $13 billion in aid to Western Europe through this economic recovery program.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The US entered the Vietnam War largely due to this Cold War foreign policy.
What is containment?
A husband and wife were executed in 1953 for allegedly passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Nixon's historic 1972 visit to these countries helped ease Cold War tensions.
What is the Soviet Union & China?
The USSR officially dissolved in this year.
What is 1991?
This 1949 military alliance was created to defend against the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
This idea centered around a belief if Vietnam fell to communism, the surrounding countries would also become communist.
What is the Domino Theory?
This government committee investigated suspected communists in Hollywood
What is the House of Un-American Activities Committee?
What is SALT? Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
This 1989 event symbolized the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This event in 1948-1949 saw the US and its allies fly supplies into a blockaded city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The US failed-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This US Senator led a crusade against alleged communists in government & Hollywood.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This US president met with Brezhnev in Moscow, the first time a president had visited the USSR since 1945.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Reagan's 1983 plan to build a space-based missile defense, nicknamed "Star Wars."
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative? (SDI)
President Truman abandoned this foreign policy in an effort to take a more active role in global affairs.
What is Isolationism?
This US covert operations organization was used all over the world to carry out espionage and assist in containing communism.
What is the CIA?
Who is Igor Gouzenko?
Protests at home, an unwinnable war, and a policy of Vietnamization were reasons to end this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
The USSR saw a loosening of control from the government & increased freedom of speech (glasnost & perestroika) under this leader.
Who is Gorbachev?