This international organization was created after WWII in an effort to maintain post-world peace.
What is the United Nations?
100
The Cold War was named the Cold War because we were never involved in any _____ battles with the Soviet Union.
What is "Hot"?
100
The ______ War was a civil war in which the U.S. intervened as a United Nations military police force.
What is the Korean War?
100
The ______Theory was the theory that if one country fell to the communist Soviet Union the surrounding countries would eventually fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
100
The Soviet Premier that oversaw Russia's reform programs during the end of the Cold War.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
This term was coined by Winston Churchill and referenced the boundary between communist and the free world, where there was no flow of ideas, goods or people.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
The ______ was part of the technical competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union that involved which country could create the best weapons.
What is arms race?
200
The U.S. became fully involved in the Vietnam War after the _______Resolution.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
200
This country's communist revolution was concerning to the U.S. This country also aided North Korean forces against the U.S. in the Korean War.
What is Red China?
200
______ was the Cold War policy that guaranteed that if one country launched its nuclear weapons, the other country would launch its weapons as well.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction or M.A.D?
300
This U.S. foreign policy vowed to contain communism where it was at and not let it expand any further.
What is the Containment Policy aka the Truman Doctrine?
300
The U.S. was in an economic competition with the Soviet Union where it struggled to keep the _______ policy.
What is the Open Door?
300
The Korean War began when North Koreans invaded South Korea at the ___th parallel.
What is the 38th?
300
Cuba's communist revolution was led by this man.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
The _______ is considered the turning point of the Vietnam War, because it drastically changed public opinion about the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
400
This organization established new alliances for the U.S after WWII as response to communist aggression.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
400
The Space Race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was a technical competition that became increasingly intense after ______ was launched in 1957. It was the first satellite put into orbit by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik I?
400
The Communist took control of Russia during the ______ Revolution of 1917.
What is the Bolshevik?
400
The ______ was an incident during the Cold War where Cuban exiles were trained by CIA agents to invade Cuba and over throw Fidel Castro. It was a complete disaster and the President Kennedy refused to send U.S. troops to aide the exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs incident?
400
Historians consider this event in 1989 as the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
500
This U.S. plan was designed to combat communism by rebuilding Europe countries after WWII in order to keep communists from exploiting them.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
The U.S. competed in non-violent competitions with the USSR in the areas of ________ and _____.
What is space, education, sports and art?
500
John Foster Dulles' policy of seeming to approach the verge of war with the Soviets was called ______.
What is Brinkmanship?
500
Mao Zedong's program to reform China economically and socially.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
500
The ______ Crisis was the closest we ever came to nuclear war with the Soviet Union.