Crash Course #37: Cold War

As Marshall said, "Our policy is not directed against any doctrine or country, but against...

At the end of the war, Germany was divided into ___ and ___.

The Plan sought to use US-aid to combat economic instability that provided fertile fields for..

The Cold War changed the way...

The Marshall Plan was a response to __ __ in Europe brought on by a particularly harsh winter.

Part of the reason Congress approved highway system was to set up spreedy evacuation in case of

The Cold War changed the way Americans imagined...

The Cold War gave us...

In 1949, the Soviets detonated their first ___ ___.

At the end of World War II, the USSR encouraged the creation of pro-communist governments in _.

____, although not technically part of the Marshall Plan, was also rebuilt.

CIA funded _____ that gave examples of American freedom to show how terrifying communism was.

A big part of the reason Soviets were able to develope nuclear weapons soquickly was thanks to

After Wolrd War II, the Soviets were concerned with something more immediate, _____.

At least the Cold War was not an attempt to make war on a noun because nouns are so...

Western Europe was rebuilt so that by__production levels in industry had eclipsed prewar levels

The US had atomic weapons, and the Soviets had lost _____ people in the war.

Truman was a big fan of containment, and the first real test of it came in ___ and ___ in 1947.

The Containment Policy and the Truman Doctrine lay the foundations for a ____, an 'arms race.'

The Cold War is called "cold" because it supposedly...

Germany was very, very slow to learn this lesson: Do not invade Russia... unless you're _____.

Congress added the phrase ____ to the pledge to show America's resistance to communism.

"Communism would stay where it was, but it would not be allowed to spread" was America's _____.

It looked like Communism might just keep expanding, and that would be bad for the US because...

The Marshall Plan turned out to be the __ most important commencement announcement in US hisory

General MacArhur forced Japan to adopt a new constitution, pledging Japan would forswear ___.

The Cold War also gave us a growing awareness that...

We largely have the Cold War to thank for our marvelous _____ _____ system.

"Freedom loving peoples against Communist threats" is a quote from which source?

In 1948, ____ cut off the roads to West Berlin.

As a result of the Cold War, the government in the name of national security spent money on...

By the end of the ___ the contours of the Cold War had been established; East vs. West

The US has been interested in the Middle East the last few decades because of __, glorious __.

Julius Rosenburg gave ____ secrets to the Soviets and was eventually executed.

Klaus Fuchs worked on the ____ Project and leaked information to the Soviets.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner asked what question?

The CIA supported painter Jackson Pollic because American expressionalism was...

Perhaps it's best to think of the Cold War as an era lasting roughly from...

The program that would have increased minimum wage and extended national health insurance was..

____ supported most aspects of Cold War policies, especially the military build up.