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Eisenhower's nickname.
What is Ike?
100
The diplomatic tool using threats and approaching the brink of war without actually going to war.
What is brinkmanship?
100
Set a limit of 10 years on how long a president could serve.
What is the Twenty-second Amendment?
100
Two countries that tried to fight Soviet control.
What is Poland and Hungary?
100
The goal of this agency is to collect information and spy on foreign governments.
What is the CIA?
200
Eisenhower's vice presidential candidate.
Who was Richard M. Nixon?
200
The promise to use all resources including nuclear weapons to stop Soviet agression.
What is massive retaliation?
200
The goal was to resist communist agression in Southeast Asia.
What is the Southeast Treaty organization?
200
Place where American and Soviet leaders met in 1955.
What is Geneva Switzerland?
200
This plane was used to spy on the Soviet Union.
What is the U-2 spy plane?
300
Became leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death.
Who was Nikita Kruschev?
300
The military alliance with Soviet dominated countries of eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
The vital waterway that egypt seized.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
Vietnam was a colony of this country.
What is France?
300
After the creation of this country, it's neighbors started a war that was won by this country.
What is Israel?
400
Was Eisenhower's Secretary of State.
Who was Dulles?
400
The policy that declared the right of the United States to help, upon request, any nation in the Middle East trying to resist armed agression.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
400
To go to Korea and end the war.
What is the pledge that Eisenhower made if elected President?
400
Ngo Dinh Diem became president of this country.
What is South Vietnam?
500
Became leader of Northern Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
500
The treaty that allowed the United States and Soviet Union to fly over each other's territory to view military capabilities.
What is the "Open Skies" treaty?
500
When a cease fire was negotiated to end the war in Korea.
What is July 1953?
500
Gamal Abdel Nasser became leader of this country.
What is Egypt?