Crash Course #37: Cold War

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Cold War changed the way...

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

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

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

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

The Cold War gave us...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Cold War changed the way Americans imagined...

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

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

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

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

In 1949, the Soviets detonated their first ___ ___.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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