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Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He claimed to have lists of communists and used it to gain power in the Senate. | Joseph McCarthy |
| Military alliance of democratic countries opposed to communism. | NATO |
| American organization that made many covert actions abroad against communism. | CIA |
| When an American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot was captured. | U2 Incident |
| American policy begun by President Truman to stop the spread of communism. | Containment |
| He was the communist leader of China who aided Korea and Vietnam against the US. | Mao Zendong |
| The US tried to invade Cuba here, but it failed and was an embarrassment. | Bay of Pigs |
| This was the line dividing North and South Korea after the war. | 38th Parallel |
| He was executed for giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. | Julius Rosenburg |
| If you were accused of being communist, this could happen and you could not find a job. | Blacklist |
| Leader of the Soviet Union during the 1950's- 1960's. | Nikita Khrushchev |
| She was executed but most likely was innocent of giving secrets to the Soviet Union. | Ethel Rosenburg |
| They were blacklisted and could not get work after refusing to name names over communism. | The Hollywood 10 |
| Soviet satellite that flew through space sending beeps across the world. | Sputnik |
| American policy of President Kennedy to come close to war with communists. | Brinksmanship |
| Member of the State Department and United Nation representative accused of being a Soviet spy. | Alger Hiss |
| Alliance of communist countries led by the Soviet Union. | Warsaw Pact |
| He overthrew Gen Batista in Cuba and created a communist government. | Fidel Castro |
| American president who took office when Kennedy was assassinated and escalated the Vietnam War. | Lyndon Johnson |
| They investigated communism in the United States and forced people to testify against others. | HUAC |
| The division of India into separate Hindu (India) and Muslim (Pakistan) nations. | Partition |
| A movement to celebrate African heritage, culture and values. | Negritude Movement |
| The Palestine Liberation Organization - dedicated to the establishment of an independent state for Palestinian Arabs and the elimination of Israel. | Mujahedeen |
| The first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country. | Camp David Accords |
| 'Shaking Off"; Palestinian campaigns of violence and non-violent resistance against Israel. | Intifeda |
| 1993 agreement in which Israeli prime minister Rabin granted Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. | Oslo Peace Accords |
| In Afghanistan, holy warriors who fought the Soviet-supported government in the 1970's. | Taliban |
| Conservative Islamic group that took control of Afghanistan. | PLO |
| A temporary rule by military authorities | Martial Law |
| A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races. | Apartheid |
| A Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information | Glastnost |
| A restructuring of the Soviet economy by Mikhail Gorbachev | Perestroika |
| A policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which Serbs hope to eliminate Bosnia's Muslim population after the breakup of Yugoslavia. | Ethic Cleansing |
| People who favored a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. | Zionists |
| An international organization intended to protect members against agression | United Nations |
| Phrase created by Churchill to represent Europe's division into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. | Iron Curtain |
| Foreign policy directed at stopping the expansion of communism. | Containment |
| Truman's policy of financial support for countries that rejected communism | Truman Doctrine |
| Assistance program that would provide food, machinery and other materials to rebuild Western Europe. | Marshall Plan |
| A struggle over political differences carried on by means of short military action or war. | Cold War |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A defensive military alliance formed by western Europe, the US and Canada | NATO |
| A defensive military alliance formed by the USSR and Eastern Europe. | Warsaw Pact |
| The willingness to go to the edge of war | Brinkmanship |
| Competition between the US and USSR to develop technology that could be used to explore and control space | The Space Race |
| Large collective farms | Communes |
| A Chinese uprising whose goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal | Cultural Revolution |
| The idea that the fall to communism of one Southeast Asian nation would lead to the fall of its neighbors | Domino Theory |
| Developing nations who were not aligned with either superpower. | Third World |
| A policy of lessening Cold War tensions. | Detente |
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