The conflict between the United States (and its allies) and the Soviet Union (and its allies) from the years of 1945-1991.
What is the Cold War?
100
U.S. policy of keeping communism from spreading.
What is containment?
100
The dividing line between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
100
This was the bomb created by the U.S. following the atomic bomb.
What is the H-bomb?
100
CIA stands for the -
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
200
The name of the military alliance created by the United States.
What is NATO?
200
Policy of containment in Greece and Turkey; $400 million was given in economic aid to reduce Communist takeover.
What is Truman Doctrine?
200
The name of the U.S. General in Korea that disagreed with President Truman publicly, and was fired.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
200
Stated that the U.S. could stop the communism by using all-out force, including nuclear weapons.
What is Brinkmanship?
200
Due to this government showing Communist sympathies by giving 200,000 acres of land to peasants, Eisenhower and the CIA took action to replace its ruler. The country is -
What is Guatemala?
300
Two countries in the Warsaw Pact.
What is Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Albania?
300
$13 billion given in aid to European countries to rebuild post-WWII. Western Europe flourished because of it.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
Give one element that was an effect of the end of the Korean War.
What is ended in a stalemate; North and South Korea would remain divided at the 38th Parallel; The U.S. suffered 54,000 casualties; The U.S. spent $67 billion dollars?
300
Soviet military alliance formed after the creation of West Germany.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
To regain control of the oil fields in Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh was replaced by which Iranian leader by the CIA?
Who is the Shah of Iran?
400
Final wartime conference between the Big 3. Reparations were divided up between German zones and Stalin hadn't lived up to his promises.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
400
The Soviets setup the ______________________ across the German capital to force the entire capitol to fall to Communism. The U.S. overcame it with the ___________________________ .
What is Berlin Blockade; Berlin Airlift?
400
One reason why the Chinese sent troops in the Korean War.
What is China wanted a communist buffer nation; Felt threatened by American presence on the coast.
400
Extending containment and brinkmanship to the Middle East.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
400
The three countries that seized the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal due to conflict with the Egyptian government were -
What is France, Britain, and Israel?
500
One thing decided upon at the Yalta Conference.
What is the United Nations is created; Stalin promises free elections in Eastern Europe; Stalin agrees to declare war on Japan?
500
Winston Churchill gave the _________________ speech about the formation of a dividing line called the _________________ across Europe.
What is Sinews of Peace; Iron Curtain?
500
Post-WWII, the Soviets took control of ___________ Korea and the U.S. took control of ___________ Korea.
What is North and South?
500
Which country did the U.S. refuse to help because they were already a communist nation, and went against containment.
What is Hungary?
500
As a result of the U.S. reputation taking a hit in the Middle East after the Suez War/Conflict, Eisenhower issued the -