Module 12 The Cold War

Senator__________launched "witch-hunts" where he tried to find the hundreds of communists he claimed were in the U.S.

The conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that did not involve direct confrontation on the battlefield was ____

The U.S. troops who were sent to Korea to fight against communism were led by General_____________________.

In 1971, Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit _________________.

After WWII, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were ______________________

On May 14, 1948, the UN created the new nation of ________________.

In 1949, ______________became the world's second communist country.

The U-2 Incident involved American pilot_____________whose spy plane was shot down in the U.S.S.R.

Alger Hiss and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg_____________________________.

In 1952, the U.S. won the race with the U.S.S.R. to ____________________________.

In response to the HUAC hearings, Hollywood instituted a __________, which names of people suspected of being communists

On July 20, 1969, _____________became the first man to walk on the moon.

Because almost 3 million East Germans had already fled East Berlin for the West, in 1961 the communists___.

Most Eastern European former communist nations adopted democratic reforms but_________actually collapsed into civil war.

Winston Churchill said the Soviet Union's control of Eastern Europe was like a(n)_______falling on Europe.

After WWII, just like in Germany, __________________became two countries.

The House Un-American Activities Committee was started in 1947 to investigate Communist influence in the _______industry

In 1991, the Soviet Union__________________.

The Chinese nationalists left mainland China in May, 1949 and formed the new island nation of _________.

In 1975, South Vietnam_____________________.

The ________said that if one country fell to communism, other nearby countries would also soon become communist.

In 1987 President Reagan made a famous speech challenging Mikhail Gorbachev to_____________________.

In 1959, Fidel Castro successfully led a communist revolution in ___________________.

Even though Stalin had promised free elections, the U.S.S.R. did not do this and instead tightened their grip on ___

The contest between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to seek a military advantage over each other was known as a(n____________.