Pro Strats
Hot Wars
Peeps
Picture Round (What, When, Why)
Potpourri
100
This was the US's policy and plan-of-action in keeping Communism from spreading globally.
What is Containment?
100
The conflict fought primarily along the 38th Parallel, with its main combatants supported by US and Chinese forces.
What is the Korean War?
100
The president present at Potsdam, who also pledged to fight Communism globally with his self-named doctrine.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
What: The Berlin Airlift
When: June 1948-May 1949
Why: Berlin Crisis, Soviet attempt at blockade, Western response to Communism
100
A period of time beginning after World War II that lasted until the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
What is the Cold War?
200
The Soviets' symbolic implementation of an invisible barrier dividing East Europe Communist countries from the West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
This incident came to be known as JFK's greatest failure, in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow dictator Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Incident?
200
The policy named for a WWII general, in which economic aid would be administered to the people of wartorn Europe.
What was the Marshall Plan?
200
What: Lee Harvey Oswald
When: 1963 (Assassination on Nov 22nd)
Why: Death of JFK, Height of security vs freedom debate
200
A defensive organization formed in 1949 against the Soviet Union that included the US, Britain, France, and West Germany among other allies.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
300
The term for the mindset that anybody; even your friends, family, neighbors, etc, could be a Communist sympathizer
What is McCarthyism?
300
Multiple incidents and negotiations involving ships, planes, and nukes over a 13 day span centered around an island just 90 miles south of the US.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
The Communist-Socialist dictator who revolutionized Cuba and would go on to rule it for over 50 years after several tense events in the early 60s.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
What: Cuban Missile Crisis
When: October 1962
Why: Closest the world has come to nuclear war, First true display of diplomacy between US and USSR
300
The kickoff to the nuclear Arms Race happened when this country detonated their first atomic bomb in 1949.
What is the Soviet Union/USSR?
400
The theory that if one country fell to Communism, others would follow.
What is the Domino Effect?
400
A physical effort by Soviets to keep citizens within city boundaries, managed through guard towers, watch dogs, barbed wire, and concrete.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
The couple who were executed as a result of false accusations of their involvement with the Soviets.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
400
What: Red Scare
When: 1950s, primarily
Why: A shift of American mentality and security, Rise of McCarthyism, Cultural shift to conformity
400
The event surrounding the Soviet blockade of Allied economic support to the capital of Germany.
What is the Berlin Crisis?
500
The Arms Race, test detonations of atomic bombs, and threats of using nuclear weapons make up this form of policy.
What is Atomic Diplomacy?
500
The alliance of Eastern nations uniting under Communism that included the USSR, Poland, East Germany, and several others.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
The McCarthy-led committee designed to investigate and prosecute possible Communist conspirators within American society.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
500
What: Yalta Conference
When: February 1945
Why: Post-War Discussions, Sets the stage for Cold War Divisions
500
Opposed by South Korean president Syngman Rhee, this Supreme Leader led North Korean forces in the conflict known as the Korean War.
Who is Kim Il-sung?