What was the fear in U.S. that Communists were trying to take of the world called?
Red Scare
The era of confrontation and competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1946 to about 1990 was known as what?
The Cold War
What was the U.S. policy of keeping communism within its present territory through diplomatic, economic, and military actions?
Containment
North and South Korea are divided along what?
38th Parallel
What was the name of the new international political organization that was established following WW II to help maintain international peace and security?
The United Nations
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at what Soviet resort on the Black Sea, to plan the postwar world?
Yalta
In a speech delivered in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill referred to what falling across Eastern Europe?
Iron Curtain
Truman and Stalin met where to work a deal on how to handle Germany, which actually led to increase tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union?
Potsdam
What was the message U.S. Diplomat George Kennan sent in regards to how the U.S. should handle the Soviet Union called?
How did the U.S. respond to Soviet Union blockade of West Berlin?
Berlin Airlift
President Truman fired who for insubordination when he publicly criticized the president?
General Douglas MacArthur
What is the name of the military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries?
The Warsaw Pact
The public hearing of screenwriters, known as the what, used their Fifth Amendment right when questioned about being Communists?
Hollywood Ten
What federal agency was formed to investigate subversive activities in the U.S.?
House Un-American Activities Committee
When Truman decided not to run again for the presidency, who won a landside victory?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was the name of a top diplomate in Roosevelt’s administration that was accused and found guilty of perjury when asked about being a Communist?
Alger Hiss
What is the willingness to go to the edge of war to force the other side to back down called?
Brinkmanship
What was the name of the Soviet clerk that defected and had documents showing a Soviet effort to infiltrate government agencies in Canada and the United States?
Igor Gouzenko
Who became chairman of the Senate subcommittee on investigation and began looking for Soviet spies in the U.S. Army?
Joseph McCarthy
After the death of Stalin, who would emerge as the Soviet leader?
Nikita Khrushchev
The U.N. drafted what document, which promoted the inherent dignity of every human being?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What is the federal policy that required all Communist-related organization to register with the U.S. Attorney General?
McCarran Act
What were the four countries that each controlled a German zone after WWII?
U.S.
Britain
France
The Soviet Union
What is the federal policy that required union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not Communists?
Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
Who was the pilot of the American U-2 spy plane that shot down by the Soviet Union?
Francis Gary Powers