Cold War Begins

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

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

At the highest estimate, killed 30 million people.

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

How rich was the U.S. after WW2?

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

Best description of Space Race

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

Who killed the most people?

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

How did President Truman handle civil rights?

Who replaced JFK?

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

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

California Republican who investigated Alger Hiss

Why did postwar Soviet behavior worry us?

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

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

Man who replaced Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.

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

The communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was the policy of keeping communism from spreading?

True or false: North Korea started the Korean War

Communist revolutionary who took power in Cuba in 1959

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

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

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

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

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

Warsaw pact was only alliance in history to do this:

Alger Hiss spied for the Soviet Union

First nation to put a person in space.

Who killed JFK?

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

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

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

NATO stands for:

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

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

What did Jonas Salk do?

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

True or false: Congress declared war on North Korea.

Why did Harry Truman fire General MacArthur?

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

President who created the interstate highway system

How'd the Bay of Pigs go?

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

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

Put the presidents in the correct order