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Republican Senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government.
Who is Senator Joe MacCarthy
This is the term for the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the cold war.
The Korean war started when ______ Korea invaded ________ Korea.
What is North Korea invaded South Korea
Under this Doctrine, the United States pledged to help nations threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
The Soviet Union built a barrier to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West.
What is the Berlin Wall.
He was the American General who led forces in Korea.
Who is Douglass MacArthur
What does the CIA stand for?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency.
Pilot of the U-2 Spay plane shot down over Soviet Union.
Who is Frances Gary Powers.
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is Warsaw Pact
What was the main purpose of the House on Un-American Activities?
To investigate communists in the government.
He developed the plan to rebuild Europe
George C. Marshall
This is the term used for the failed attempt to overthrow or depose Castro in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs.
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel.
Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies.
What is . Who were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
What does the H stand for in H-bomb.
What is Hydrogen.
Only president in the 20th century without a college degree.
Who is Harry S. Truman
This is an imaginary line that Churchill had said descended upon Europe.
What is the iron curtain
He was the leader of the Soviet Union who became friendly with Fidel Castro.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev.
What was the policy to stop the spread of communism?
What is containment
What is the name used to describe the soaring birthrate from 1946 to 1964?
What is the baby boomers
He was an American general and president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He was president when U-2 spy plane was shot down.
What is Dwight D. Eisenhower
Term that meant on the edge of all out war.
What is Brinkmanship.
What was the name of the first Satellite ever launched into orbit by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik.
Where were the two Atom bombs dropped in August of 1945?
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What does NATO stand for?
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization