Cold War Review

Question 1

Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.

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Iron Curtain

Question 2

An alliance made to defend one another; between US and many Western European countries

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NATO

Question 3

Government program created to find information about foreign governments, corporations and persons.

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CIA

Question 4

Idea that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will as well

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Domino Theory

Question 5

A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet Union

Question 6

US policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism

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Truman Doctrine

Question 7

Conflict between Communist North Korea and China against the U.S. and The United Nations

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Korean War

Question 8

A conflict between the US and the Soviet Union from 1945 to the late 1980's

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Cold War

Question 9

President during Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, Civil Rights Movement

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John F Kennedy

Question 10

United States general during WWII and became US president after Truman.

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Dwight Eisenhower

Question 11

The powers in a conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly

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Proxy War

Question 12

US senator; claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence

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Joesph McCarthy

Question 13

Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life

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Red Scare

Question 14

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba

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Fidel Castro

Question 15

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

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Containment

Question 16

Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976.

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Mao Zedong

Question 17

Russian leader who created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition; leader until 1953

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Joesph Stalin

Question 18

US plan to revive war-torn economies of Europe. Offered 13 billion in aid to help stop communists movements

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Marshall Plan

Question 19

Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall

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Nikita Khrushchev

Question 20

Closest the US has ever come to firing nuclear weapons since WWII

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Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 21

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.

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Warsaw Pact

Question 22

Elected Vice president in 1944; led the U.S. through the end of World War II and beginning of the Cold War

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Harry Truman

Question 23

Communist leader of North Korea who started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994.

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Kim Il Sung

Question 24

Committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government following World War II.

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HUAC

Cold War Review

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Cold War Review

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