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Cold times begin
Metallic Drapery
A little help
Food bombs and a split nation
Out...or I guess in the defense perimeter
100
Europe looked like this after WWII
What is bombed out and devastated
100
A metaphor for the ideological block between Eastern Europe and the Western world
What is the Iron Curtain
100
The US plan to keep communism from spreading
What is Containment
100
The solution to keep West Berlin alive after the Soviets put in place a blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift
100
The leader who established a communist government in the North
Who is Kim Il Sung
200
There were major technological advances in these things that made WWII much more devastating than WWI
What are planes and bombs and tanks
200
This world leader coined the term "the Iron Curtain"
Who is Winston Churchill
200
The plan to give money to help rebuild European countries after WWII
What is the Marshal Plan
200
Besides food and water, a daily supply of these two items were needed to keep the city functioning
What are coal and gasoline
200
These two nations did not have delegates on the UN Security Council
Who are China and Russia
300
A state of political and military tension in the world after WWII
What is the Cold War
300
Besides Russia, these were 3 of the countries behind the Iron Curtain
What are Albania, Greece, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary
300
President Truman's policy to support any free people under threat of communism
What is the Truman Doctrine
300
"There is no choice between a 1000 calories a day and democracy, and 1500 a day and communism" meant....
What is the fact that people would go with whatever ideology could feed them and keep them alive.
300
The President of the US and the General during this time period
Who are Harry S Truman, and General Douglas MacArthur
400
The 2 super powers at odds during the Cold War
Who are the US and Soviet Union
400
This man was the father of the cold war
Who is George Kennan
400
Germany was divided into 4 zones by these countries:
Who are the US, Britain, France, and Russia
400
The first proxy war fought between the US and the Soviets
What is the Korean War
400
Truman was trying to avoid this particular appearance, when invading Korea
What is soft on communism
500
The political ideology behind the entire war
What is Communism
500
An 8000 word telegram sent by a US diplomat from Russia, explaining how the US should deal with the Soviets
What is the Long Telegram
500
It was determined that this number of calories per person, per day, was needed to keep West German from starvation, and falling to the Soviets
What is 1700 calories per day
500
Korea was divided into a northern, and a southern half, on this line
What is the 38th parallel
500
On the eve of the Korean war, the Soviets did this to make the US nervous
What is detonated a nuclear weapon