Cold War Review

Supreme Court ruling: suspects must be read their rights before questioning

U.S. military policy to prevent spread of communism by promising to use all its forces

UN General who was fired by Truman for going over his head to influence people to invade China

Thermo-nuclear weapon that had 67 times the power of the weapon used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Where did the Tienanmen Square protests take place?

Which of the following limited the powers of the president after Vietnam?

This separated East and West Germany to stop East Germans from fleeing to the West

Final wartime conference between Great Britain, the U.S. and Soviet Union

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the 1950s and 1960s

What was the purpose of Vietnamization?

Preventing an extension of communist rule to other countries

U.S. citizen executed for committing espionage

What were the significance of the Kent State protests and the Pentagon Papers?

What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?

LBJ's Great Society went to war against

Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

Countries in Eastern Europe that were dominated by the Soviet Union

U-2 pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union during a spying mission

Program which U.S. supplied economic aid to European nations to rebuild after WWII

Unfair tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without providing evidence

First satellite sent to space by the Soviet Union

Leader of nationalist party in China

Richard Nixon wanted to ease Cold War tensions by following the policy of ___________

_______________ began the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union

Phrase by Churchill- an imaginary line that separated Communist and non-communist countries

Conflict between the US and the USSR where neither confronted the other directly on battlefield

International peacekeeping organization created after World War II

Commander of the UN military who helped keep South Korea during the Korean War

Soviet Union leader who took over as dictator after the death of Joseph Stalin

John F. Kennedy defeated _________________ to become President in 1960

JFK's new military strategy to deter nuclear war and broaden our fighting options

Which president was the first to send combat troops into Vietnam?

Which two communist countries does Nixon visit in the 1970s?

Eisenhower relied on the CIA for gaining information abroad through spying

Leader of the communist party in China

Defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 western European countries, U.S., and Canada

Military alliance between the Soviet Union and 7 Eastern European countries established in 1955

What was the Bay of Pigs?

Wisconsin Senator who led a witch hunt to find communists living in the U.S.

Name given to LBJ's reform package for the United States