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100

President responsible for a doctrine that gave money to Greece and Turkey in an effort to contain the spread of communism. 

Truman

100

Conflict that further divided communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea down the 38th parallel. 

Korean War

100

Foreign plan developed by formal military official in WWII that helps rebuild the economy and everyday life of Western Europe. 

Marshall plan 

100
Political process that accused Left-wing politicians of being communist, founded mostly on baseless claims. 

McCarthyism

100

Battle for which country could make it to space and then to the moon. 

Space Race

200
President responsible for the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis 

JFK

200

Conflict that lasted from 1954 to 1975 that was a civil war between communist North Vietnam, and the Southern part of Vietnam called the Viet cong

Vietnam War

200

Policy of many Cold War Era Presidents that aims to keep Communism to one part of the world 

Containment 

200

Committee that investigated possible communists. 

HUAC

200

Term that refers to the division of Western Europe and Eastern Europe that 

Iron Curtain

300

President responsible for the Iranian Hostage Crisis of the 70's

Carter

300

Forced the Soviet Union to remove nuclear weapons off of Cuba, and the U.S. to quietly remove missiles off of Turkey

Cuban Missile Crisis

300
Nixon's policy of easing tensions between USSR and USA

Detente 

300

Protests conducted by young people in an effort to escape the draft of the Vietnam war

Burning draft cards

300
Organization that formed in an effort to protect against military threats like the Soviet Union during the Cold War

NATO

400

Star Wars, Speach asking the Soviet Union Leader to tear down the Berlin Wall

Reagan

400

Attempt by JFK to take out the communist government of Cuba that failed

Bay of Pigs invasion

400

Gave LBJ permission to send weapons to Vietnam and fight there without formally declaring war

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

400

Two people executed in 1953 for allegedly passing along atomic secrets to the USSR

Ethel and Julius Rosenburg 

400

Communist response to NATO

Warsaw Pact

500

President responsible for passing the Civil Rights Act, and further escalating the Vietnam war efforts following the assassination of JFK. 

LBJ

500

Country that was cut through in an effort to try and end the Vietnam war. That was under a fierce regime that caused a genocide. 

Cambodia

500

Wouldn't just contain communism but would roll it back altogether and was a doctrine that would help support anti-communist insurrections. 

Reagan Doctrine


500

Initiated by President Truman to screen federal employees ensuring that none of them were linked to any communist activity. 

Federal employee Loyalty Program 

500

Acronym that described what would happen if nuclear war actually broke out 

MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction