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Cold War
Question | Answer |
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parallel line that divides North and South | 38th |
Chinese leader that won the civil war | Mao Zedong |
Senator that caused the second Red Scare | Joe McCarthy |
The division between the Communist East and Democratic West | Iron curtain |
Nation that MacArthur wanted to attack for helping North Korea | China |
How did the Korean War start | North invaded the South |
Policy of willing to go to all out war with the Communists | brinkmanship |
The organization formed to carry out secret operations to weaken or overthrow governments | CIA |
The group formed to investigate government employees for disloyalty | Loyalty Review Board |
the U-2 Incident of 1960 | spy plane shot down over Soviet Union |
Alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | Warsaw Pact |
Alliance between US, Canada and Western Europe | NATO |
Organization to keep the peace | United Nations |
Not a US goal | use the Eastern European resources to rebuild the American economy |
Eisenhower doctrine | the United States will stop the spread of Communism in the Middle East |
Truman doctrine | give money and supplies to those fighting communism |
General fired by Truman | MacArthur |
Marshal Plan | provided financial aid to rebuild Europe |
why Americans believed the Soviets had become superior in 1957 | the soviets launched Sputnik |
The policy of the United States to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries was called | Containment |
The Allies response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin | Berlin Airlift |
The Soviet leader after the death of | Nikita Khrushchev |
American couple accused of leaking secrets to the Soviet Union | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
Investigated Communist influence in Hollywood | House of Un-American Activities Committee |