American program of economic assistance for rebuilding non-communist Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This group of people did most of the factory work in America during WWII.
Who are women?
100
The moment in the Cold War when the two major players came closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
A term used for non-aligned nations.
What is third world?
100
This event was most responsible for Japanese surrender in WWII.
What is the dropping of the atomic bomb?
200
A term describing the division of Europe by the Soviet Union spreading its areas in Eastern and central Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
200
The leader of the USSR after Stalin, he began to give up some of the coercive powers of the communist state.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
A military conflict in which the French attempted to reestablish their colonial rule .... and the country fought back with communist guerrilla warfare... and the U.S. got involved to back the French.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
A country dependent economically on a single cash crop.
What is banana republic?
200
This territory was taken over by Germany when Hitler declared that they had a shared culture and language.
What is Austria?
300
A nation/state that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on another state.
What is a client state?
300
He was a U.S. senator who attacked political opponents by labeling them unpatriotic (or even Communists or traitors).
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
300
In 1957, this was the first black African country to gain independence.
What is Ghana?
300
Reagan arranged to secretly fund a war in this country, using American profits from arms sales to Iran.
What is Nicaragua?
300
The first atomic bomb was dropped here.
What is Hiroshima?
400
The season in 1968 when it seems as though Czechoslovakia would achieve greater independence from the USSR (this hope was crushed).
What is Prague Spring?
400
This Guatemalan wanted to force the United Fruit Company to sell land to the government.
Who is Colonel Jacobo Arbenz of Guatamala?
400
In 1991, this country formally dissolved into 15 independent states.
What is the USSR?
400
The CIA secretly funded opposition parties and labor strikes in an effort to oust the president of this country.
What is Chile?
400
This battle marked the turning point for the Eastern/Russian front in WWII.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
This was established in response to the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
He headed the USSR government after Krushchev, and declared that he would use military force to prevent any satellite countries from claiming independence.
Who is Brezhnev?
500
In 1997, Russia was given status in this organization.
What is NATO?
500
This former U.S. enemy became an American ally in the Cold War, partially because of a nearby proxy war.
What is Japan?
500
Most historians agree that WWII started when Germany invaded this country.