Strategies
The US plans to keep communism from spreading to any new countries.
What is Containment?
Clue: The US President who started the policy of Containment and created a "Doctrine" to help nations fight communism.
Answer: Who is Harry Truman?
Clue: The 1947 plan that provided economic aid to Western Europe to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The 1948–1949 event where the U.S. flew in food and supplies after Stalin blocked West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Mao’s plan to rapidly industrialize China, which unfortunately led to a massive famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The promise that the US would help any nation fighting offa communist takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The US President who ended the Korean War and dealt with the U-2 Incident.
Answer: Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
The US policy dedicated to preventing the spread of communism to new countries.
What is Containment?
The 13-day event in 1962 that was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
When the government takes all private farms and merges them into one giant, government-run unit.
What is Collectivization?
Clue: The 1947 plan that provided economic aid to Western Europe to prevent the spread of communism.
Answer: What is the Marshall Plan?
Clue: The Soviet leader who took over after Stalin and removed missiles from Cuba after an agreement with the U.S.
Answer: Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The term for the imaginary line dividing democratic West Europe from communist East Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by US-backed exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The name of the first satellite launched into space by the USSR in 1957
What is Sputnik?
Clue: The belief that if one nation falls to communism, nearby nations will also fall.
Answer: What is the Domino Theory?
The revolutionary leader who won the civil war and turned China into a communist nation in 1949.
Answer: Who is Mao Zedong?
The military alliance formed in 1949 by the US and its Western European allies.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
The "Forgotten War" (1950–1953) fought to contain communism in East Asia.
What is the Korean War?
The concept that if both sides have enough nukes to destroy each other, neither side will start a war.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
Clue: The international organization created in 1945 so nations could work together to keep peace.
Answer: What is the United Nations?
The Chinese Nationalist leader who lost the civil war and fled to the island of Taiwan.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
The 1955 military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The 1960 event where a US spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is the U-2 Incident?
A nation that is officially independent but is actually controlled by the Soviet Union.
What is a Satellite Nation?