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This president of the United States made the decision to drop the first nuclear bomb ever used in war.
Who is Harry Truman?
This failed invasion made JFK look foolish.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This war in East Asia demonstrated the US commitment to the policy of containment.
What is the Korean War?
This president's leadership generally increased tensions during the Cold War.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This man led a revolution in and then became the Communist leader of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This president of the United States was formerly the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WWII.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This method of searching for Communists in the United States led to paranoia and self-censoring.
What is McCarthyism?
During this crisis the world came closer to nuclear war than at any other time.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This plan, which cost $13B, had the effect of encouraging the establishment of free democracies in Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This leader of the Soviet Union enjoyed chess and thought of Kennedy as young and inexperienced.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This man was president of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
When Stalin refused to allow trucks and trains from Western Germany to bring aid to West Berlin, the leaders of the US, Britain and France responded with this.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This country was the first to detonate a nuclear bomb.
What is the United States of America?
This doctrine encouraged economic and military intervention to contain Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The largest nuclear explosion ever occurred in this country.
What is the Soviet Union?
This Senator from Wisconsin gave his name to an unconstitutional method of accusing and interrogating alleged Communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The post-WWII spike in the US birthrate is known as this.
What is the Baby Boom?
This country was the second to detonate a nuclear bomb.
What is the USSR?
Winston Churchill named the dividing line between Communist and non-Communist Europe this.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This spy plane was used to discover the nuclear missiles in Cuba which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the U2?
This president was humiliated by the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The Korean War would have been an American victory, but this neighboring country sent military support for North Korea and brought the fighting to a stalemate at the 38th parallel.
What is China?
This is the number of battles fought directly between the US and the USSR.
What is zero?
McCarthyism finally came to an end when Senator McCarthy accused this military branch of harboring Communists.
What is the US Army?
This Soviet leader, aboard a Soviet submarine, prevented a nuclear torpedo strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Vasily Arkhipov?