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This person fueled the fears Americans harbored about communism; he falsely accused many innocent people.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
What is capitalism?
What is to allow democracy to flourish and stop the spread of communism?
This group formed for protection from aggression and to keep communism from spreading.
A war using guns, tanks, soldiers, and other weapons.
What is a hot war?
Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin; shares same goals of spreading communism.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
An economic idea where the state owns and controls everything.
What is communism?
The idea that the continent of Europe was sharply divided between two distinct and opposing ideologies; term coined by Winston Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The result of the Korean War.
What is North Korea remained communist and South Korea remained a capitalist country?
A war that uses words and is fought over ideas but generally no weapons are used.
What is a cold war?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A type of government that totally controls every part of a person's life.
What is totalitarianism?
The result of the Vietnam War.
What is all of Vietnam became communist?
United States felt that if they allied with this group, they could help prevent another world war and stop the spread of communism.
What is NATO? (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
When weapons of war were set close to the United States by the Soviet Union name the event and why it's important.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? What is the United States wanted the Soviet Union to remove the missiles from Cuba?
This leader coined the term "Iron Curtain" when talking about Europe after WW2.
Who is Winston Churchill?
A type of government where the people rule by electing their leaders.
What is a Democracy?
The reason the United States send troops and advisers into Vietnam.
What is to prevent the spread of communism into South Vietnam?
The reason alliances were still being formed during The Cold War.
What is two different economic and political ideas were popular during this time. Most countries felt safer joining one side or the other.
This event helped stop the spread of communism throughout the entire city; it also led to a wall being built to separate the two parts with different ideologies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A type of government where a single person rules the people.
What is a dictatorship?
An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
What is a free market?
Describe the era of the Cold War.
What is a time of conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States that involved disagreements over ideas and beliefs about how to run the world.
This is how NATO helped to prevent the spread of communism during the Cold War.
This alliance of western European nations along with other countries came together and pledged to prevent the Soviet Union from taking over and spreading their ideas of communism around the globe.
The invention of the television did this during the Cold War Era.
What is seeing events around the world happening almost immediately?