US History Cold War Review

Won the Chinese Civil War, Chinese Communist Party

Failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban Government aided by the US

10 people who refused to name names during the HUAC trials and spoke out against McCarthyism

What did China's name officially change to in 1949 when the Communist Party won control?

A campaign against alleged communists, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy

Wall constructed by the Soviet Union to separate the people of East and West Berlin and prevent people from leaving

What were the names of the two major alliances during the Cold War?

Which group put people from Hollywood on trial to accuse them of Communist ties?

What is the name given to the time the Soviet Union successfully pointed missiles at the US?

What was the result of the Vietnam War

Intergovernmental organization to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations

A program designed by Truman to find the communist hidden in the US government by examining all federal employees

Define the Cambodian Genocide

the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers

If one non committed government falls to communism the rest will fall after

The first satellite in space, sent up by the Soviet Union

An Intercontinental Ballistics Missile

President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis, wrote the Civil Rights Act, didn’t live to see it passed

A competition during the Cold War to see who could build the biggest Nuclear weapon the fastest

If one non committed government falls to communism the rest will fall after

What two policies did Gorbachev pass that helped led to the end of communism in the Soviet Union

A war between North and South with the North being supported by the USSR and the South by the US and UN

The point where Korea was divided into North Korea and South Korea.

Fidel Castro was the Leader of

What was the list of alleged communists called?

Lost the Chinese Civil War, Chinese Nationalist Party

What was one of the main causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union?

The name of the organization created by JFK spread Democratic ideals and increased American knowledge of other cultures

How did the US and Britain finally get aid into their section of Berlin during the Blockade?

What is the definition of Brinkmanship?

NASA stands for

Winston Churchill's famous speech that described the change in Europe like a _ _ had descended around Eastern Europe

Communist leader of the Soviet Union until he died in 1953

Policy that gave aid to Greece and Turkey to help prevent the spread of Communism

Political theory from Karl Marx, where all property is publicly owned, each person works and is paid according to needs