Cold War Begins

As the U.S. and its Allies almost reunited Korea, this country sent troops to help the North.

This was our policy toward Soviet Union throughout the Cold War.

Why did postwar Soviet behavior worry us?

Likely the closest we ever got to nuclear war during the Cold War?

What was the alliance which included the United States and its allies?

At the highest estimate, killed 30 million people.

Who killed the most people?

Eisenhower warned about this growing relationship between the defense industry and the military.

Communist revolutionary who took power in Cuba in 1959

How did President Truman handle civil rights?

Eisenhower’s policy of threatening to use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.

This nation joining NATO in 1955 made people a little nervous.

True or false: both Soviet Union and U.S. believed their ideals were universal.

California Republican who investigated Alger Hiss

True or false: North Korea started the Korean War

Best description of Space Race

True or false: Congress declared war on North Korea.

How'd the Bay of Pigs go?

Soviets shot down a spy plane, which we lied about.

President who created the interstate highway system

1956 anti-Soviet uprising in an Eastern European nation, crushed by the Soviets.

True or false: blockade is technically an act of war.

First nation to put a person in space.

What did the Soviets agree to do to end the Cuban Missile Crisis?

What did the United States agree to do to end the Cuban Missile Crisis?

CIA plan to train Cuban exiles, have them take Cuba back from the communists, with our support.

John F. Kennedy defeated which politician in the general election in 1960?

Who replaced JFK?

Why did Harry Truman fire General MacArthur?

Who killed JFK?

NATO stands for:

JFK’s military plan for the Cold War, in contrast to Eisenhower’s. Used more traditional forces instead of nukes.

What did Jonas Salk do?

Alan Shepard, the first American in space, went covered in:

Senator who made a name for himself by accusing people of communism on flimsy or no evidence.

Location of border between North and South Korea AFTER Korean War.

This event totally shattered the hopes for a peaceful world after World War 2.

Idea that no one would use nukes because we would all be doomed.

This nation, representing 1/5 of humanity, became communist in 1949.

How rich was the U.S. after WW2?

The communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our:

Who was in charge of the commission that investigated the JFK assassination?

Did the Soviets let countries elect their own governments after WW2?

An attack on one member is an attack on all of them.

Put the presidents in the correct order

Location of border between North and South Korea BEFORE Korean War.

Man who replaced Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.

What was the policy of keeping communism from spreading?

Alger Hiss spied for the Soviet Union

What did Kennedy choose to do about Soviet missiles in Cuba?

Eisenhower got caught lying about U.S. spying on the Soviet Union

Warsaw pact was only alliance in history to do this:

What was the American program that provided billions of dollars to Europe after World War II?

In 1956, this country tried to free itself, only to be crushed by Soviet tanks.

Policy of providing arms and financial support to nations fighting off communists?

Major symbol of the Cold War built in 1961 to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West.