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Key Players of the early Cold War
Key Players of the early Cold War
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State Dept Official Accused by Whitaker Chambers of being a Soviet spy:
Horation Alger
Rudolf Hess
Alger Hiss
Horatio Sanz
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Anti-Communist Senator from Wisconsin:
Sen Joe Lieberman
Sen Joe McCarthey
Sen Ted Kennedy
Sen Gary hart
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Identify this US SecDef under Kennedy and later Johnson:
Robert Kennedy
Curtis LeMay
Robert McNamara
Robert Walpole
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Leader of Nationalist China / Taiwan
Klaus Fuchs
Kim Park
Ho Chi Minh
Chaing Kai-Shek
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Supreme US and UN Commander at the start of the Korean War:
GEN Douglas MacArthur
GEN Omar Bradley
GEN George S. Patton
GEN David Patreaus
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Identify this British PM who coined the term, " The Iron Curtain"
Josef Stalin
George F. Kenan
Dennis Major
Winston Churchill
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US citizens who passed Atomic bomb secrects to the Soviets and were executed for spying
Lucy and Ricky Ricardo
Fred and Ethel Mertz
Robert and Ethel Kennedy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Sec of State under Eisenhower who proposed " Brinksmanship":
John Foster Dulles
F. Lee Bailey
John C. Clarke
Scott Orson Card
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Longtime leader of the CPUSA during the Cold War:
Ben Chavis
Adolf Himmler
Gus Hall
Erich Honecker
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First Communist leader of the DPRK:
Ho Chi Minh
Kin Jong Il
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Un
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Identify this " Man of Steel":
Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky
Hitler
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German born British scientist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviets:
Klaus Fuchs
Erich Honecker
Robert Wagner
Heinrich Himmler
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POTUS at the start of the Cold War:
Thomas A. Dewey
Jimmy Carter
William J. Clinton
Harry S. Truman
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The First President of South Korea:
Sygman Rhee
Kim Il Sung
Hasimoto Tojo
Kim Jong Un
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This POTUS was elected during the Korean War and promised to end the fighting there:
David Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
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" Father of the H-Bomb"
Edward Teller
William Tell
Bruce Jenner
Penn Teller
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Identify this Chicom Leader:
Ho Chi Minh
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kim Jong il
Zhou Enlai
18
This Cold War cartoon character taught school kids to " Duck and Cover!"
Bert the Turtle
Ernie the Sloth
Fred the Frightful
Terry the Terrified
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Air Force General who was the commander of SAC ; " Bombs Away ______"
GEN Marshall
GEN Patreaus
GEN LeMAy
GEN Patton
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California Congressman who became VP under Eisenhower:
Richard Crenna
Al Gore
Robert Frost
Richard Nixon
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US ambassador to the Soviet Union who proposed the policy of " Containment"
George Jones
Curtis LeMay
George Jefferson
George F. Kennan
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Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis:
Andrei Gromikyo
Vladimir Putin
Josef Stalin
Nikita Khruschev
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Identify this Cuban dictator:
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Che Guverra
Juan Valdez
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POTUS during the Cuban Missile Crisis:
Robert Kennedy
Joseph Kennedy
John F, Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
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Identify this Communist leader who holds the record as history's greatest mass murderer:
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Marshal Zuhkov
Lao tze-Dong
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Former Army 5-Star Gen /Secy of State who proposed an economic plan to save post-war Europe:
George Jones
Peter Marshall
George Jefferson
George Marshall