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Which 2 Countries were a part of the Cold War in the beginning?

What are the US and Soviet Union

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Island off the coast of China?

What is Taiwan

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People called before HUAC who did not cooperate?

Who was the Hollywood 10

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33rd President of the US

Who is Harry S Truman

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Republican senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government?

Who was Joseph McCarthy

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A U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover?

What was the Truman Doctrine

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An Imaginary line that divided Europe after WWII?

What is the Iron Curtain

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Attacks on suspected Communists in the early 1950s?

What is McCarthyism

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Leader of the Nationalist forces in China?

Who is Chiang Kai Shek

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This conflict, often called the "Forgotten War," lasted from 1950 to 1953 and pitted communist forces supported by China and the Soviet Union against a United Nations coalition led by the United States.

What is the Korean War

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A resupply of aid to Berlin by the US and England?

What is the Berlin Airlift

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A War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950?

What was the Korean War

300

List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC?

What is a Blacklist

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Leader of the Communist forces in China?

Who is Mao Zedong

300

What were the main ideological differences between the United States and the Soviet Union that contributed to the beginning of the Cold War?

What are capitalism (USA) and communism (USSR)?

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What were three issues that led to hard feelings between the Soviet Union and the United States?

The division of Europe

Division of political systems

Soviets were an Ally of Hitler

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Who helped South Korea besides the US?

Who are the UN

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What two spy cases increased fear of communism in the United States?

What is the Hiss case

What is the Rosenburg case

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Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies?

Who was Ethel and Julius Rosenburg

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In 1947, President Truman pledged to support nations threatened by communist takeover, which became known as this doctrine.

What is the Truman Doctrine?

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A Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations

What is NATO

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Which side of the Korean War did the US support? Why?

Nationalism South Korea

Because they were democratic and not communist

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What are two meanings for the term McCarthyism?

What is unsupported accusations


What is unfair tactic of accusing people without evidence

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A Former State Department official?

Who is Alger Hiss

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This military alliance was created by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to the formation of NATO.

What is the Warsaw Pact?