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Which was formed first, NATO or the Warsaw Pact?
NATO
Who advocated the "New Frontier"
John F. Kennedy
What was the name for a widespread fear of communism that occurred after WW1 and WW2?
What organization did Congress establish to conduct the new American space program?
NASA
The Truman Doctrine was developed when the Soviets attempted to gain control of Greece and what other country?
Turkey
Who was the Communist leader in Cuba
Fidel Castro
What decision was rendered by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas?
public schools cannot be segregated by race
What term was coined to describe accusations based on lies, distortion, and innuendo?
McCarthyism
Who was the Secretary of State who negotiated with the Soviet Union?
Henry Kissinger
Who won the election of 1948 despite a 3-way split in the Democratic Party?
Harry Truman
Bay of Pigs
Who was the Communist leader in China?
Mao Zedong
Who was a judicial activist as a Supreme Court Justice?
Earl Warren
Permanent members of which agency of the United Nations have veto power?
Who was the Nationalist leader in China?
Chiang Kai-Shek
What 1968 North Vietnamese offensive was a military failure but a political success for Communist forces?
Tet Offensive
What did East Germany begin building in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West?
the Berlin Wall
Who was the Communist leader in Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
What are the three departments of the UN?
1. General Assembly
2. Security Council
3. Secretariat
What was the name of the first Russian satellite successfully launched into space?
Sputnik 1
In 1949, what did the United States recognize to be the "real China"?
What term was used by President Nixon that affirmed the belie that most Americans were not violent radicals?
Silent Majority
What were the pro-Communist South Vietnamese called?
Viet-Cong
What incident allowed President Johnson to ask Congress for authority to fight Communist aggression in Vietnam?
the Gulf of Tonkin incident
What weapon developed by the United States in 1952 was far more powerful than the atomic bomb?
the Hydrogen Bomb