Cold War

Which president was forced to create NASA to appease the public?

Who was the European colonial power in Vietnam?

Why did America care at all about France's situation in Vietnam?

When were the Paris Peace Accords signed, effectively ending our involvement in Vietnam?

What was Stalin's chief complaint during World War II?

Where was Joe McCarthy from?

Which neighboring country did Nixon authorize bombings on during his first term?

McCarthy was _____ the Senate in 1954.

Who led the charge against Alger Hiss with the House Un-American Activities Committee?

When was the Berlin Wall constructed to keep East Germans from fleeing into West Germany?

During which month was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Which political party was affiliated with McCarthy?

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were ________.

What was the name of the spy planes we used against the Soviets? One was shot down in 1960.

Who was the victor in China in 1949?

In what year did Stalin sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler?

Which Cold War term means "working class people"?

Which country was NOT a part of combining zones to create West Germany?

True/False: China helped North Korea in the Korean War.

The highest a Soviet Spy ever climbed in US Government was _____, head of the OSS.

True/False: In order to avoid war with China, Ike officially recognized them as POTUS.

Lenin is known as the "Father of 20th Century ______".

True/False: The historical record suggests JFK de-escalated US involvement in Vietnam.

Who was Eisenhower's Sec. of State that promoted the strong-arm policies of Ike?

Which revolutionary leader seized power in Cuba by 1959?

True/False: The thing to remember about the McCarthy Era was that it was bipartisan.

What organization was formed in 1949 to disincentivize 

Containment was Truman's policy, but ______ was Eisenhower's policy.

One of the times paranoia was accurate, the magazine ___ was passing on documents to Soviets.

Which Cold War term means "capitalist class who owns the majority of society's wealth"?

Four months later, Khrushchev came to the UN and banged his _____ on the table in anger.

Who was the leader of the Soviets after Lenin died?

What change occurred in our policy towards Vietnam under Ford?

The National Defense Education Act (1958) put money into _______ classes.

What is the classic Cold War phrase for a politician who seemed too cozy with Communists?

To whom is this phrase attributed?

____ was formed in 1949 to provide a disincentive for Soviet expansion into Western Europe.

When Khrushchev visited America in the 1950s, which site did he most want to visit?

Which word correctly describes Nixon's Vietnamization policy?

Who wanted a "“dictatorship of the proletariat . . . in place of bourgeois democracy.”

When did Hitler break this pact with the Soviets?

Eisenhower also had to cut the budget while staying armed, so he relied on ____ power.

Who said, in later 1945, that Stalin was a "fine man who wanted to do the right thing"?

Who was forced, rather uncomfortably, to ally themselves with the Soviets at this point?

When did South Vietnam finally surrender to North Vietnam?

One of the unfortunate side-effects of JFK's strong response in the CMC was his action in ____.

The ____ Offensive was probably the turning point of the war in Vietnam.

Which nation was the first to test ICBM?

What was the name for the "Second Front" Stalin accused GB & USA of "waiting around for"?

Which of the following places did Eisenhower NOT place a U.S. nuclear weapon?

NCS-30, issued in 1948, gave ______ sole authority to launch nuclear weapons.

Which German physicist, who worked on nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, was given 14 years by GB. 

Which Congressional action gave LBJ carte blanche with regards to Vietnam?

McCarthy ran a long, and destructive, Red Hunt until he began to challenge the _______.

In a historical move, Nixon visited _____ in 1972 and recognized the People's Republic.

To whom is the policy of containment attributed?

Who "took the reins" after McCarthy died in 1957?

Which nation was the first to officially recognize Castro's Cuba?

Which nation launched the first satellite to orbit the Earth? (Sputnik)

A "Cold War" is defined as a war where "two sides do not _______ each other".

America's Cold War is most closely associated with ______.

What was the acronym for a work-camp that 10,000,000 Russians were forced into by Stalin?

The threat of Communism spreading into _______ led to the Truman Doctrine.

Why did Nixon not finish his second term?

The Eisenhower Doctrine dealt specifically with ___ countries who felt threatened by Communism.

True/False: Ethel was definitely a Soviet Spy, but it is unclear about Julius.

In which branch of Congress did McCarthy serve?

What descriptive phrase was used to detail the growing ideological split in Europe?

Which president broke with the precedent of the US protecting Taiwan against Chinese invasion? 

What became the political term for comparing how many missiles we had to the Soviet's number?

When did the Soviets first test an A-bomb?

The Bay of Pigs invasion (disaster) got no air-support (was promised) but JFK's #s rose to __.

True/False: The North Korean aggression against South Korea was orchestrated by Moscow.

The ______ Powers Act (1973) limited the president's power to send troops into combat.

In a show of support, in 1953 America gave France ______ to aid their efforts in Vietnam.