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100
Winston Churchill
Who is the person that first coined the term "Iron Curtain"
100
North Korea
What is the Communist Country in East Asia, Northern part of Korean Peninsula
100
Korean War
What is the conflict between North and South Korea that lasted between 1950-1953
100
Warsaw Pact
What is the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite states
100
Red Scare
What is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism.
200
Jiang Jieshi
Who is the leader of the Chinese Nationalists
200
South Korea
What the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, Republic Government
200
Sputnik
What is 4 October 1957
200
Cold War
What is the conflict between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others) and the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact)(
200
Brinkmanship
What is the practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome
300
Mao Zedong
Who is the leader of Chinese Communists
300
Levittowns
What is a large suburban developments in the United States created by William Levitt. Built in post-WWII America for returning veterans and their families
300
Berlin Airlift
What is 24 June 1948
300
Iron Curtain
Symbolized the ideological conflict and the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas.
300
Containment
What is the policy of keeping Communism where it is
400
Joseph Stalin
Who is the leader of Soviet Russia
400
Suez Canal
What is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt. Put under governmental control during the Cold War
400
Relief of General MacArthur
What is April 11th 1951
400
Marshall Plan
What is the American initiative to Aid Europe in which the United States gave economic aid to help rebuild European economies after WWII in order to prevent the spread of Communism
400
NASA
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration
500
John Foster Dulles
Who is Eisenhower's secretary of state who promoted the policy of brinkmanship
500
38th Parallel
What is the line dividing North and South Korea Also where North Korea invaded South Korea
500
Cold War
What is 1945-1991
500
N.A.T.O
What is the North Atlantic Alliance, a system of collective defense.
500
Truman Doctrine
What is an international relations policy set forth by President Harry Truman, which states that the U.S would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet Sphere. Promised support to any nation that was threatened by Communism