Policies & Plans
The U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
Answer: What is containment?
City divided into sectors controlled by four countries after WWII.
Answer: What is Berlin?
Line that divided North and South Korea.
Answer: What is the 38th parallel?
Fear of communism in the United States.
Answer: What is the Red Scare?
First satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
Answer: What is Sputnik?
The program that gave $13 billion to rebuild Europe.
Answer: What is the Marshall Plan?
Soviet attempt to cut off supplies to West Berlin.
Answer: What is the Berlin Blockade?
Country that invaded South Korea in 1950.
Answer: What is North Korea?
Committee that investigated communist activity.
Answer: What is HUAC?
Policy where both sides would be destroyed in nuclear war.
Answer: What is Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This doctrine gave aid to Greece and Turkey.
Answer: What is the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. response that flew supplies into West Berlin.
Answer: What is the Berlin Airlift?
General who led UN forces in Korea.
Answer: Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Being denied jobs due to suspected beliefs.
Answer: What is blacklisting?
Missiles capable of traveling long distances with nuclear weapons.
Answer: What are ICBMs?
This 1947 act created the CIA and Department of Defense.
Answer: What is the National Security Act?
Military alliance formed by the U.S. and Western Europe.
Answer: What is NATO?
Country that entered the war to support North Korea.
Answer: What is China?
Senator known for accusing people of being communists.
Answer: Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.
Answer: What is the Bay of Pigs?
Eisenhower’s policy of using nuclear threats instead of ground troops.
Answer: What is Massive Retaliation?
Communist alliance formed in response to NATO.
Answer: What is the Warsaw Pact?
How the Korean War ended. It was NOT a treaty.
Answer: What is an armistice (ceasefire)?
Couple executed for passing atomic secrets.
Answer: Who are the Rosenbergs?
1962 crisis that brought the world closest to nuclear war.
Answer: What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?