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The Cold War: US History
The Cold War: US History
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Vocabulary, dates, people and events from the early Cold War.
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Soviet Union and the United States "fought", but it never resulted in an actual armed conflict.
Cold War
Iron Curtain
McCarthyism
Venona Papers
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What was the policy of Vietnamization, and which U.S. president implemented it?
A. Strategy to gradually withdraw U.S. troops; Richard Nixon
C. Policy focused on negotiating peace with N. Vietnam; Gerald Ford
B. A plan to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam; Lyndon Johnson
D. Strategy to increase military in Vietnam without direct combat; JFK
3
This communist country invaded South Korea in 1950.
China
North Korea
Soviet Union
Mongolia
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Which action did the U.S. government take to help deescalate tensions during the Cold War?
D. Withdrawing from diplomatic negotiations with the Soviet Union
C. Launching preemptive military strikes against rival nations
A. Increasing the development and stockpiling of nuclear weapons
B. Signing agreements like the SALT treaties to limit nuclear weapons
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Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met here in 1945 to plan the reorganization of Europe after WW2
Paris Conference
Yalta Conference
Geneva Conference
UN Conference
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created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations in the U.S.
The anti-communist committee
House Un-American Activities Committee
Committee on defending liberty
American committee against totalirians
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The border between the Soviet Bloc and western Europe was referred to as this.
Lenin's Line
Iron Curtain
Communist line
Sputnik
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Who was the leader of "Red" China?
Mao Zedong
Xi Jinping
Sun Tzu
Lao Zu
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Stated that the US would stop the spread of communism wherever it tried to expand.
Iron Curtain
Containment Policy
Sputnik
McCarthyism
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After China became a communist country it was referred to as this.
Chinommunist
Red China
Mao's Playground
The New Republic
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campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions.
Trumanism
Freemen Initiative
McCarthyism
Liberationism
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Leader of the communist Soviet Union.
Czar Nicholas
Rasputin
Romanov Family
Joseph Stalin
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First ever satellite launched into space in 1957 by the Soviet Union
Dasvadana
Sputnik
Kremlin
Lenin
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President Truman ordered supplies dropped in from planes after the Soviet Union Blocked roads.
Berlin Airlift
Operation Down Wind
Operation Skyline
Iron Curtain
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Time frame of the Korean War
1946-1948
1955-1960
1950-1953
1940-1945
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What was the main purpose of the War Powers Act of 1973?
A. To increase U.S. involvement in foreign wars.
B. To give the president full control over military actions.
C. To allow Congress to command the military.
D. To limit the president’s power to send troops w/o Congress’s approval.
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Stated that the US should help all countries fight against communism anywhere in the world.
McCarthyism
Venona Papers
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
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Two Americans, husband and wife, were prosecuted for espionage (spying) against the US.
Rothschild Trial
Scopes trial
Communist trial
Rosenberg Trial
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Program where the US gave a lot of economic (money) help to European countries after WWII.
Truman Doctrine
Civil Rights Act
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan
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Organization formed for the purpose of security during the Cold War.
EU
UN
NATO
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