Tageant - Cold War Review

President Truman's plan for America was called?

John F. Kennedy's plan for America was called

Richard Nixon appealed to a group of Americans known as the "Silent Majority"

The widespread fear of Communism in the 1950s.

Gave grants to schools to teach math & science to support future innovation in America

Movie Executives who refused to answer questions from the HUAC and were put in jail.

Which political group began to see a lot of growth in the 1980s?

Investigated fascists and communists in the United States

Which U.S. President was unsuccessful because he was inexperienced & unable to work with Congress?

The United States has the right to help any Arab nation who tries to resist communism?

Which U.S. President passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

Who assassinated President Kennedy?

Which of the following became a symbol of the Cold War?

Biggest development in communication & entertainment in the 1950s

Who was the General that was relieved of command during the Korean War?

Vietnam was under colonial control by which European power?

1st man to walk on the moon

The United States launched the first artificial satellite into space.

Who became the Soviet Union's dictator when Stalin died?

Created by President Kennedy in which college graduates worked around the world to increase goodwill to the US

Which president improved the economic stagflation of the 1970s?

Where was Korea divided before the Korean War?

Soviet Spy who sold the nuclear blueprints from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union

A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

The belief that possessing a large amount of weaponry would prevent war.

A plan to provide economic assistance to European countries that fought communism.

Made it a crime to want to overthrow the government

Which of the following weakened Americans' opinion of the war?

A country that is dominated by another nation, especially by the USSR during the Cold War.

Who became president when JFK was assassinated?

Which U.S. President resigned because of the Watergate Scandal?

The Watergate Scandal resulted in President Nixon being impeached and removed as President

The American policy of resisting the spread of Communism around the world.

President Truman's Doctrine was a plan to provide aid to countries that..

A government ban that limits trade?

President Kennedy authorized CIA to help Cuban refugees to overthrow Fidel Castro, but failed miserably

What city was divided in half between the democratic nations and the Soviet Union?

Youngest U.S. President ever elected

Soviet missiles planted in Cuba to discourage another American invasion of Cuba

A "witch hunt" against Communists in the 1950s

Which U.S. President brought an end to the war in Vietnam?

A struggle to gain weapons superiority.

1st TV Presidential Debate

A law that reduced the power of unions by stopping strikes for 80 days.

Allowed the government to investigate Communist organizations

Stalin's attempt to starve the city of Berlin

Investigated the Kennedy Assassination & found no conspiracy

The act of bringing America and the USSR to the brink of war and stopping.

Who did President Nixon appoint as his assistant for national security?

Created by Truman to help veterans adjust to civilian lift by giving them money for college etc

Lyndon B. Johnson's plan for America was called

Suspected Communists that were banned from working in the movie industry

Threat that if the Soviets caused any trouble, the US would respond with nuclear bombs

Which U.S. President put the 1st American personnel in Vietnam?

The first artifical satellite to orbit the Earth launched by the Soviets in 1957

A spy agency created to collect information in foreign governments and conduct secret wars

Process of gradually withdrawing American troops while South Vietnam took over more fighting?

Which U.S. President authorized American advisors to be able to engage in combat?

An alliance formed in 1949 between U.S. and Western European nations to defend against comm.

An international organization formed at the end of World War II to promote world peace.

Hostility between countries without actual warfare.

1st American to orbit the Earth

Division between the democratic West & the communist East in Europe

The Berlin Airlift was American & British planes delivering supplies to West Berlin

Irregular troops who carry out ambush attacks & sabotage, then blend into civilian population

The US developed a permanent system for making bigger and better weapons

Vietnam is located in

The belief that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would fall as well.

Which US President was elected because of his famous war record & toughness against communism?

Invented by the Soviet Union to deliver a nuclear warhead