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cold war part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| communist leader of cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war. | |
| a list circulated among employers containing the names of persons who should not be hired. | Blacklist |
| communists in North vietnam | Vietcong |
| communists leader of North Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| Containment policy where the US rebuilds Europe | Marshall Plan |
| Built in Berlin to keep citizens from escaping West Berlin | Berlin Wall |
| Stop spread of communism | Containment |
| Dividing line between North and South Korea | Iron Curtain |
| War the ended in lost for the US | Vietnam |
| Spending money to stop communism | Truman Doctrine |
| U.S Senator who claimed that their were SU and other spies and communists within the government but had no evidence. | |
| Allies response to the Soviets blockade of West Berlin | Airlift to come to West Berlins aid |
| Massive, coordinated Communists assault against more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam | Tet Offensive |
| Containment war that ended in a tie | Berlin Blockade? |
| First man made satellite put into by the USSR | Sputnik |
| If one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control | Domino Theory |
| A congressional committee created to search out disloyal Americans and Communists | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
| Idea that both sides would face certain destruction in a nuclear war. | Mutual assured destruction (MAD) |
| The competition that development between the US and SU for power and influence over the world from 1945-1991 | Cold War |
| Principle of not breaking down in a crisis, even if it meant taking the country to a brink of war | |
| Disaster where the CIA trained Cubans to invade Cuba | Bay of Pigs |
| Cold war competition between the US and SU to build up their respective armed forces and atomic weapons | The nuclear arms race |
| The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism | McCarthyism |
| Standoff between John. F Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Alliance between the SU and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to NATO | Warsaw Pact |
| 1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each other. attack one attack all | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Communists in South Vietnam |
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