Cold War
The best definition of the term "Cold War".
What is a war between countries which do not confront each other directly?
OR
What was a post-World War II rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union?
(Double points for both answers)
The name for nations that fell under the Iron Curtain and Soviet Influence.
What are satellite nations?
The instigator of the Korean War.
Who was NATO?
This provided military aid to stop the spread of Communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
The Soviet accomplishment that made the US believe it was falling behind in technology.
What was the launch of Sputnik?
The basis for the cold war.
The peacekeeping organization established after World War II.
What is NATO?
The leader of the Communist Revolution in China
Who was Mao Zedong?
The policy originally promoted by diplomat George F Kennan.
What is containment?
Senator Joseph McCarthy is most known for this.
What is claiming that dozens of known Communists were working within the U.S. State Department?
The husband and wife convicted and executed for selling A-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who were the Rosenbergs?
The response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Chiang's followers fled here after they lost the Chinese Civil War.
Where is Taiwan?
The Eisenhower doctrine provided economic and military aid to this group of nations.
What is the Middle East?
What was the removal of Castro?
The reason Berlin was considered a mini version of the Cold War.
What is the city was divided between Eastern and Western powers?
The reason European Nations were willing to accept Soviet control.
What was economic help to rebuild and protection from Germany?
The country that aided North Korea during the Korean war, making the conflict much larger and deadlier.
What is China?
The purpose of the Marshall Plan.
What was providing economic aid to Europe to prevent countries from falling to communism?
The event that resulted in the withdrawal of U.S. missiles in Turkey.
The original purpose of NATO.
What is establishing a military alliance between the U.S. and Western European countries?
The metaphor Winston Churchill used to describe Soviet influence spreading into Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The reason General Douglas MacArthur was removed from command in North Korea.
What was MacArthur publicly criticizing presidential policies?
The countries originally covered by the Truman Doctrine.
What are Greece and Turkey?
This president authorized the training of Cuban exiles to prepare for an invasion in 1960.
Who was Eisenhower?