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What city did the United States and Britain supply with a massive airlift for almost a year?
West Berlin
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What type of government did North Korea have?
Communist
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What government program was made to coordinate space related efforts for science and military?
NASA
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What was the red scare?
Belief that communist were working both in and out of America to destroy American life
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Who was Joseph Stalin?
The dictator of the Soviet Union
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What plan allowed congress to give aid to Western Europe to stop spread of communism
The Marshal Plan
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Who aided North Korea in the war?
China
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How much more powerful was the H-bomb compared to the atom bomb?
1000 times
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What did the smith act do?
Made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of us gov't.
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What is the 38th parallel
Dividing line between north and south korea
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What was the iron curtain?
It divided East and West Europe
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The Korean War was primarily fueled by what?
Communism
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How did the United States know that the Soviet Union set off an atomic bomb?
They detected an unusual amount of radiation.
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What were the Hollywood Ten?
Communist movie producers who pleaded the fifth amendment in trial
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What country launched the satellites Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2?
The Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union made Eastern Europe what?
Satellite States
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Who won the Korean War?
No one- it was a stalemate
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Why did Eisenhower lower the Defense budget in 1955
Produce more "bang for the buck"
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What were Americans worried about?
Communist spies
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George F. Kennan proposed what?
Containment
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What did the Turman Doctrine do?
Aided nations struggling against communist movements
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What did MacAruther want to do?
Attack china
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What did the Hungarian revolution cause?
Revolution crushed, hundreds of deaths, bloodbath at 1956 Olympic Games
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What does Captain America represent.
America's fight against Communism.
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What did the marshal plan mostly ship to foreign countries?
Raw materials and food and produce