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Offering mass aid for Europe's rebuilding efforts, was an attempt by the United States to limit the spread of this in Western Europe after WWII.
What is communism?
100
The United States and Great Britain broke the USSR's Berlin Blockade by airlifting supplies into the city, allowing West Berlin to remain ...
What is free of Soviet control and democratic?
100
Membership in the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank demonstrates that the United States had abandoned this previous policy.
What is isolationism?
100
This term describes the practice of hounding alleged Communists in America.
What is McCarthyism?
100
Name the policy that this quote is referring to: "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures...I ask the Congress to authorize the detail of American civilian and military personnel to Greece and Turkey..."
What is the Truman Doctrine and containment policy?
200
The U.S. strategy of intervening with money, weapons, and soldiers in other nations to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This was the main success for the United States in the Korean War.
What is communism was contained without the use of nuclear weapons?
200

This was the purpose of NATO.

What is NATO was primarily intended to deter aggression from the USSR, and an attack on any NATO member was to be considered an attack on all?

200

What did the Rosenburg's claim was the reason they were being accused of passing information to the USSR?

What is they claimed they were being persecuted for holding unpopular beliefs. 

200

How did Churchill describe the relationship between Eastern & Western Europe post WWII?

What is The Iron Curtain?

300
The U.S. strategy of offering money to any country that wanted help to rebuild after WWII (and that promised to stay capitalist).
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
The reason why President Truman dismissed General Douglas MacArthur from the Korean War.
What is MacArthur wanted to launch an attack (including nuclear) against and into China?
300

President Eisenhower cut millions in defense spending with a new defense policy which threatened the use of nuclear weapons to fight communism. The new defense policy was known as this.

What is massive retaliation/brinkmanship and a "new look military"?

300

The House Committee on Un-American Activities fear of infiltration in American Media led to what?

What is Hollywood Blacklists, loss of careers, and censorship in Hollywood media?

300

What historic event from U.S. history can be compared to McCarthyism?

What is the Salem Witch Trials (1692)?

400

What was the U.S. response to the Berlin Blockade?

What is the Berlin Airlift?

400
The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I in 1957 led to an escalation of this branch off the 1950's Arms Race.
What is the Space Race?
400

What event was viewed as a major failure of containment in Asia?

What is the fall of China (1949)

400
The definition of McCarthyism.
What is accusations not supported by evidence?
400

What was the USSR response to the U.S. formation of NATO in Europe?

What is The Warsaw Pact?

500

This is the reason why the United States implemented the Marshall Plan in Western Europe after WWII.

What is to set up democratic governments in the region?

500

Following the resolution of WWII, the U.S. became the worlds sole superpower. What did the USSR engage with the U.S. in to become a the second global superpower?

What is the 1950's Arms Race?

500
Name the speech that this quote comes from: "It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world...Our policy is directed...against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be...to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist." - Speech by the Secretary of State, June 5, 1947.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500

What were the Rosenburg's convicted of after being accused of giving Nuclear information to the USSR?

What is Espionage?

500

This was the purpose for establishing the United Nations.

What is to promote peace and unity and another world war?