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Kennedy and the Cold War
Miscellaneous
100
This scared Americans due to Soviet technical superiority and the prospect of being spied upon and was also the first satellite in space.
What is Sputnik?
100
Conflict between U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1990.
What is the Cold War?
100
Plan to rebuild European countries destroyed by World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
U.S.'s response to the Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba.
What is blockade of Cuba?
100
The border of North and South Korea. (parallel)
What is 38th parallel?
200
This event started the Korean War.
What is the North's invasion of the South?
200
Countries that formed dividing line between Soviet Union and Western Europe (Satellite Nations).
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
American policy to stop communism from spreading throughout the world
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
How the Cuban Missile Crisis ended.
What is the Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba and the United States removed missiles from Turkey?
200
The cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba?
300
This man was the first to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
300
Alliance of Western nations formed to stop Soviet military aggression.
What is NATO?
300
President Truman's objective in the Korean War.
What is limited war?
300
The U.S. program that sent trained volunteers to other countries to help teach English, build roads and schools, and teach farming methods.
What is the Peace Corps?
300
U.S. and U.N. troops captured the capital city of Seoul during this invasion.
What is Inchon?
400
This event occurs in East Germany in 1989 and is a symbol of the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
400
Area in southern South Korea that the U.S. and U.N. troops defended early in the Korean War.
What is the Pusan Perimeter?
400
Use of unfounded, vague accusations to attack suspected communists in the early 1950's.
What is McCarthyism?
400
The nuclear treaty signed by the United States and Soviet Union during Kennedy's Presidency.
What is Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
400
The way that President Eisenhower used the CIA to fight the Cold War.
What is Covert Operations?
500
The U.S. responded by airlifting supplies due to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin during this event.
What is the Berlin Crisis of 1948?
500
The easing of tensions between United States and China and the Soviet Union
What is detente?
500
Theory that a large nuclear arsenal would prevent communist countries from invading other countries or U.S. territories.
What is Massive Retaliation?
500
The difference between Flexible Response and Massive Retaliation.
What is Kennedy built up conventional part of army so he would have options.
500
The demand that Khrushchev made of Kennedy concerning Berlin.
What is he wanted the U.S. out of West Berlin?