US foreign policy after World War II that had the goal of stopping the spread of communism.
What is Containment
100
The President of the US after World War II who used a policy of Containment to fight the Cold War.
Who is Harry Truman
100
The first place in Latin America that tuned communist and became a major threat to the US
What is Cuba
100
Represented a major failure of Containment and was the first country in Asia to turn communist after World War II in 1949.
What is China
100
A fear of communism spreading to the US represented by wild accusations and and little evidence as many people were accused of being communist spies.
What is McCarthyism
200
An example of Containment where the US gave money to countries to help their military fight off a communist takeover
What is the Truman Doctrine
200
The President of the US who started a period of Detente in the Cold War by peacefully meeting with both the Soviet Union and China.
Who is Richard Nixon
200
A failed attempt by the US to remove Fidel Castro and communism from Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion
200
The first major war of the Cold War that ended in a stalemate and a half communist and half democratic country.
What is the Korean War
200
The main resource that made the Middle East valuable after World War I and still today.
What is Oil
300
An example of Containment where the US gave money to countries to help their economy recover after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan
300
The President of the US believed in the use of Massive Retaliation to any Soviet threat during the Cold War.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
300
An example of brinkmanship where the world was on the edge of a nuclear war for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
300
A long and unsuccessful war that saw gradual involvement from the US overtime.
What is the Vietnam War
300
Two countries in the Middle East where the US tried to install a friendly government that ended in controversy.
What is Iran and the Egypt
400
Both the US and Soviet formed alliances that divided Europe into and Eastern and Western half.
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact
400
The President of the US who increased involvement in the Vietnam war and sent troops in on the ground to fight.
Who is Lyndon B Johnson
400
US policy to allow governments in Latin America to be in control no matter how violent or bad they were for their people as long as they were not communist governments.
What is ABC - Anyone But Communists
400
A belief that once one country in Asia turned communist other countries would soon follow.
What is the Domino Theory
400
This created fear in the US that the Soviets had passed them in technology and could possibly reign down nucelar weapons from outer space
What is the launching of the Sputnik
500
The first major conflict of the Cold War after WWII that took place in a divided Germany.
What is the Berlin Blockade and Airlift
500
The President of the US who was use a more Flexible Response and was in power during the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F Kennedy
500
A program created by the US government to give aid to Latin America and keep communism out of their "backyard"
What is the Alliance for Progress
500
Antiwar protest in the US against the Vietnam War began to drastically increase after the Gulf of Tokin incident and the beginning of ____________________.
What is the Ground War
500
The US dumped billions of dollars into an effort to send a man on the moon and retake the lead against the Soviet Union in the Space Race.