Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korean War
What country was trying to contain communism?
U.S.
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Rosenbergs
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
Cuban Missile Crisis.
A war in Asia used to stop the spread of communism.
The Korean War
A government policy that gave soldiers and veterans loans to go to college, by houses, or make a business.
Servicemen Readjustment act or GI Bill
Which president lead the start of the Cold War, NATO, Marshall Plan, Korean War, etc...
Harry Truman
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Soviet stopping supplies being transported into Berlin to force out Allied forces.
Berlin Blockade
This policy was used to give aid to countries fighting communism and promote democracy
Truman Doctrine
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
Sputnik
Was the President that ended the Korean War, and started NASA
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
United Nations (UN)?
The Ideological difference of Western Democracy vs Eastern Communism separated by an imaginary line.
Iron Curtain
A policy that would give aid to war torn countries that are rebuilding after World War II, with the promise to not become communist
Marshall Plan
Government programs to help end poverty, and racism.
The Great Society
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
JFK
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA
What years did the Cold War start and end.
1945 - 1991
Belief that if one country falls to communist the next will, and the next, and the next, next, next, next
Domino Theory
The race to build up the most nuclear weapons
Arms Race
Created The Great Society and the war of poverty.
LBJ
Soviet Union response to the creation of NATO. An Alliance of Communist countries.
Warsaw Pact