Cold War Origins
What is the name of the 1945 organization created to maintain peace and resolve conflicts diplomatically; the U.S. joinedby pledging troops, money, and ambassadors?
What is the United Nations
What is the dividing line between North and South Korea called?
What is the 38th parallel?
U.S. committee created in 1938 and later used to investigate suspected communists in the movie industry
What is H.U.A.C.? (House Un-American Activities Committee)
What rival military alliance did the Soviet Union and its satellite states create in response to NATO?
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union and was described as unpredictable and confrontational in the unit?
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
What is the Iron Curtain?
What general led UN/US forces early in the Korean war? He was fired by President Truman.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
What was the name given to the widespread fear that communists were working to destroy American life, which led to loyalty oaths and investigations?
What is the Red Scare?
Which Chinese leader won the civil war and established the People’s Republic of China in 1949?
Who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for revealing atomic secrets to the USSR?
What U.S. policy announced after WWII, pledged support for democracies against authoritarian threats and aimed to prevent the spread of communism?
What was the U.S./British response to the Soviet's Berlin Blockade called?
What is the Berlin airlift?
Who were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg accused of helping?
Who is the Soviet Union?
What 1956 event involved Egypt nationalizing an important waterway and led Britain, France, and Israel to intervene?
What is the Suez Crisis?
What is the policy that states communism must be kept within it's existing boundaries?
What is containment?
What plan provided about $13 billion in grants and loans to Western Europe beginning in 1948 to help rebuild economies and resist communism?
What is The Marshall Plan?
What was the Soviet satelite, that started the space race, called?
What is Sputnik?
What Cold War-era safety drill and cartoon instructed children to take cover under their desks?
What is Duck and Cover (Bert the Turtle)?
What US agency was created in 1958 to oversee American space programs?
What is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administrator)?
Willingness to risk nuclear war to prevent the spread of communism.
What is Brinkmanship?
Countries under the direct control or influence of the USSR are called?
What is a satelite state?
Soviet hydrogen bomb that was detonated in 1961.
What is the Tsar Bomba?
The practice of accusing your fellow citizens of being communists without any proof?
What is McCarthyism?
The U.S. olympic win that shocked the world.
What is Miracle on Ice?
Who's plane was shot down over Soviet airspace?
Who is Francis Gary powers?