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What year did the Cold War begin (about)?
1945
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What is a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
Communism
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What year was NASA established?
1958
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What war happened first and what year did it occur?
Korean War, 1950
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What is the Peace Corps?
What is A federal government organization, set up in 1961, that trains and sends American volunteers abroad to work with people of developing countries on projects for technological, agricultural, and educational improvement.
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What year did the Cold War end (about)?
1991
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What is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Capitalism
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What was the Berlin Airlift and Blockade?
The airlift supplied West Berlin with supplies and food. The blockade was set up by the Soviets to block out the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access
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What was the Warsaw Pact?
The political and military alliance of the Soviet Union and East European socialist states, was formed in 1955 as a counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in 1949
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What is the Space Race?
The Space Race was a mid-to-late twentieth century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in outer space exploration
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What was the Superpowers of the Cold War?
Soviet Union and United States Of America
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What is the word that explains when the Soviets had the policy, process, or result of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology
Containment
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What was the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself from the non-communist areas called?
The Iron Curtain
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What was the second war that was caused by the Cold War and what year did it occur?
Vietnam War, 1959
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What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
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What was the mood of society for America during this time?
"Tense", fear
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What was the Arms Race?
a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons
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What did the Eisenhower Doctrine state?
If American economic assistance and/or aid from the U.S. Military forces is wanted because a country is being threatened by armed aggression from another state the U.S. will help
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What was the symbol of the fall of communism?
The Berlin Wall being tore down
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What is the Red Scare?
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.
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Why was it called the Cold War?
Fallen threats in the arms race, there was no direct fighting?
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What is the "event" that happened during the Cold War, where Americans were scared of Communism?
Red Scare II
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What is the Smith Act?
federal law stating that there would be criminal penalties for supporting the overthrowing of the U.S. government and it required all non-citizen adults to register with the government
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What did America become after the Cold War to the World?
A World Power
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What is McCarthyism?
the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.