Chapter 26: Cold War Conflicts

What policy was put in place to prevent communist rule from spreading to other countries?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were...

Stalin's successor who believed that communism could and would take over the world peacefully:

Chinese communist leader who ruled in northern China and relied on Soviet aid:

Stalin's blockade of Western Berlin resulted in this support from the US and Britain...

Thermo-nuclear weapon even more destructive than atomic bomb (67 times the power of Little Boy)

What group refused to answer questions about their possible Communist relations & sent to jail?

Where is the DMZ?

President Truman took over British economic and military support in Greece and Turkey...

America supported impoverished Europe with about $13 billion, Communist party loses appeal:

Nuclear arms threat increased reliance on this group; carry out secret missions against enemies

This was the first satellite launched by the Soviets:

What term was used to describe the nations that Stalin established communist governments in?

Western European nations, as well as the US and Canada formed this alliance of military support

Who was president during the time of the race for the H-bomb?

Chinese nationalist who ruled in South and East China and was supported by the United States:

Warning sent by Eisenhower saying that the US will defend Middle East against communist attack:

What caused Khrushchev to withdraw US's invitation to the USSR and skyrocketed US&USSR tensions

His plane was shot down in U-2 incident, landed in Soviet territory & spent 10 years in prison:

Conflict between the United States and Soviet Union which never involved any physical combat:

The willingness of the US under Eisenhower to go just to the edge of all-out war:

He was put in charge of UN forces in Korea

One man's unsupported accusations about communism in the early 1950's became known as...

Warned not to cross the Yalu River; what country enters the war in 1950, at this point?

Who was the most famous anti-Communist activist?

Most famous US agency that investigated Communist influence within and outside of the US govt:

Eisenhower's secretary of state, extremely anti-Communist; the Cold War was a "moral crusade".

North Korea's surprise attack on South Korea created the conflict known as:

Man accused of spying for the USSR by W. Chambers- written evidence, sent to jail for perjury.

What was created when 50 nations met on April 25, 1945 with hopes of establishing world peace?

What split Korea into northern Soviet rule and southern US rule after the Japanese surrendered?

Alliance made after W. Germany rejoined NATO: linked USSR with some Eastern European countries

Hollywood executives created list of who they thought had Communist background, ruined careers:

Churchill described the division of Europe into the Democratic West and Communist East as...

This was the largest public works project in the 1950s; 41,000 miles were constructed: