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Vocab
Potpourri
Containment
Mer'ica
Communists are Scary
100
The isolation of a nation by stop communication or trade with them
What is a quarantine?
100
What is the policy of Coexistance
Both nations recognize each others' right to exist
100
The name of the central line dividing Korea
38th parallell
100
Became President in 1952 because people really seemed to "Like him"
Eisenhower "IKE"
100
One of the most frightening parts of the Cold War involved missiles and the tropics. What was it?
What is the Cuban Missile crisis
200
Imaginary line that separated “Free” Western Europe from “Communist” East
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
In the Korean War, North Koreans were supported by who?
The Chinese
200
When the Soviet Union Blockaded West Berlin how did Nato supply food and medicine to its people.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
This educational film taught boys and girls how to survive a nuclear apocalypse
Duck and Cover
200
The Russians launched this artificial satellite into orbit
What is Sputnik
300
The theory that if one nation falls to Communism, then so will its neighbors
What is Domino Theory
300
What is a satellite nation?
What is A nation that is dominated by another nation
300
American plan that invested money in the broken buildings of Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This American town is the birthplace of suburbia
Levittown
300
Name of the failed government plot to assassinate Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
400
Area where by agreement, no troops or armaments are allowed
What is a Demilitarized Zone
400
What is Brinksmanship?
Policy of threatening to initiate a nuclear attack to stop communism
400
This is the name for the political and military organization of European nations
What is Nato?
400
This blowhard senator called everyone a communist
Joseph McCarthy
400
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Kruschev
500
U.S. policy to answer a Soviet or China attack on another country with an all out strike
What is Massive Retaliation?
500
Leader of the former government of china known for being corrupt
Chiang Kai Shek
500
The U.S. was acting as a part of what organization when we invaded Korea
What is SEATO
500
This married couple was executed for leaking the atomic bomb plans to the U.S.S.R.
The rosenbergs
500
Name of the post-war Soviet Union and Satellite nation alliance
What is the warsaw pact