US defeat of Japan
The American code name for the research and development of the Atomic Bomb.
What was the Manhatten Project?
The representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish this new peacekeeping body. After two months of debate, on June 26, 1945, the delegates signed a charter.
What was the United Nations (UN)?
Post-WWII United States policy to take measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries.
What is Containment?
On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy informed an anxious nation of the existence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba and of his plans to remove them.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The very first man-made object was put into orbit by the Soviet Union.
What was the satellite called "Sputnik"?
The nickname for the first Atomic Bomb that was used against Japan.
What was "Little Boy"?
Over 327 days planes took off and landed around the clock to bring 2.3 million tons of supplies into west Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
“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.”
What was the Truman Doctrine?
It was estimated that it would have the force of 1 million tons of TNT (67 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima)
What was the H-Bomb (Hydrogen Bomb)?
This US President told the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall".
Who was President Ronald Reagan?
This Japanese city was bombed on August 9, 1945.
What is Nagasaki?
The 12 countries pledged military support to one another in case any member was attacked. For the first time in its history, the United States had entered into a military alliance with other nations during peacetime.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
January 1957. The United States pledged that it would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country. In March, Congress officially approved the doctrine.
What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?
The willingness of the United States, under President Eisenhower, to go to the edge of all-out war.
What was "Brinkmanship"?
The proposed missile defense system is intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was announced on March 23, 1983, by President Ronald Reagan.
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)? (Also nicknamed Star Wars)
The Japanese military and civilians held out on this Island for 100 days despite being outnumbered by the Allies who also had air superiority.
What is Okinawa?
The military alliance of the Soviet Union with seven Eastern European countries.
What was the Warsaw pact?
This secretary of State proposed that the United States could prevent the spread of communism by promising to use all of its force, including nuclear weapons, against any aggressor nation.
Who was John Foster Dulles?
Francis Gary Powers entered Soviet airspace, a Soviet pilot shot down his plane, and Powers was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory.
What was the U-2 incident?
The name was given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, in May 1972.
What was Detente?
The lead US scientist in the development of the atomic bomb.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
In a speech by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill used this term to describe the soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
This meant that the United States would provide aid to all European nations that needed it, saying that this move was directed “not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”
What was the Marshall Plan?
The US used spies to gather information abroad. They began to carry out covert, or secret, operations to weaken or overthrow governments unfriendly to the United States.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
The person behind this statement: “Revolutionaries are not born, they are made by poverty, inequality, and dictatorship.”
Who was Fidel Castro?