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One of the early Cold War events that led to a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes.
What is the Berlin Blockade/Airlift?
100
A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations forces consisting primarily of US troops.
What is the Korean War?
100
American couple convicted of conspiracy to commit Espionage for helping the Soviet Union acquire the secrets to the atomic bomb from the United States during World War II. They maintained their innocence from the time of their arrest until they were executed.
Who were the Rosenbergs?
100
The military, political and ideological barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe.
What is iron curtain?
100
Legislative panel charged with investigating alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having ties with Communism.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
200
An international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945.
What is the United Nations?
200
A military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
200
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
What is McCarthyism?
200
A nation that appears to be sovereign but is being controlled by a greater power.
What is a satellite nation?
200
Systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within.
What is subversion?
300
Kennan's analysis detailed his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. It provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment.
What is the Long Telegram?
300
A mutual defense treaty between 8 Communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
Formal disapproval of actions.
What is censure?
300
Country whose economy is primarily agricultural.
What is a developing nation?
300
Informal relationship that exists between the military and defense industry to promote greater military spending and influence government policy.
What is military-industrial complex?
400
Policy outlined in an address to the U.S. Congress in March of 1947 to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
Intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; particularly between the U.S. and Soviet Union from 1945-1991.
What is the Cold War?
400
Motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios.
Who were the Hollywood Ten?
400
Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
What is Sputnik I?
400
Foreign policy that threatens the use of nuclear weapons against a Communist state trying to seize a peaceful state by force.
What is massive retaliation?
500
Also known as the European Recovery Program; it was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Conflict fought in which the belligerents do not expend all of the resources at their disposal, whether human, industrial, agricultural, military, natural, technological, or otherwise in a specific conflict.
What is a limited war?
500
Federal policy that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their allegiance to the U.S. government.
What is the loyalty review program?
500
Policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
What is containment?
500
The practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down.
What is brinkmanship?