People and Places
The two countries that Germany was divided into after World War II
During the Vietnam War, the United States supported this side
South Vietnam
In 1957 "they" sent an artificial satellite to space.
The Soviet Union
In 1949 the Soviet Union detonated one of these. Marking the beginning of the arms race.
An atomic bomb
Richard Nixon established a "relaxation" of Cold War tensions with the USSR
Detente
The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
Joseph Stalin
First time the United States directly fought self-declared communists
The Korean War
This is the place the United States established for space research.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
The General Assembly and the Security Council are two organs of this International Organization.
The United Nations
This doctrine allowed communist countries to remain but tried to prevent the spread of communism by any means necessary
The Truman Doctrine (known as containment)
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the separation between communist powers of the East and capitalist powers of the West
The Iron Curtain
The Soviet Union tried to place nuclear missiles in THIS country leading to a stand off with the United States in 1962
Cuba -- The Cuban Missile Crisis
This weapon is what the arms race was about.
Nuclear weapons
This event, between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin occurred at the end of WWII and resulted in the agreement to create the United Nations.
The Yalta Conference
The name of the strategy to used rebuild Europe after WWII
The Marshall Plan
The senator of Wisconsin that fanned the flames of the Second Red Scare
Joseph McCarthy
In response to the Western Allies creating NATO, the Soviet Union created this military alliance.
The Warsaw Pact
This event ended the Space Race in 1969.
A man who held a high level US governmental position who was a member of a Soviet spy ring
Alger Hiss
This operation flew much needed supplies into West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
The Berlin Airlift
This general was fired by President Truman for insubordination during the Korean War.
General Douglas MacArthur
Article V of NATO states that "An attack on one member is an attack on all." This is an example of what kind of policy.
Collective Security (peaceful military alliance)
Name the bomb far more powerful than the atomic bomb in WWII.
The hydrogen bomb
She was appointed to the first US delegation in the United Nations and drafted the Human Rights Declaration.
Eleanor Roosevelt
This plan was used to aid economically underdeveloped nations in the Third World
The Four Point Program