Cold War
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| The Two Superpowers of the Cold War | show 🗑
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| A 1948 American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of WW2. Soviets declined any money. | show 🗑
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| An American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by the namesake president on March 12, 1947 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. | show 🗑
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| Soviet Premier who was in power when the Cold War began | show 🗑
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| Economic system in which the Soviet Union spread to Eastern Europe countries after World War II | show 🗑
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| Name of World War II Conference in which the UK, US, and USSR agreed on democratic elections throughout Europe after the War. The Soviet Union reneged on this and instilled puppet governments in Eastern Europe. | show 🗑
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| show | Manhattan Project (1941-1945)
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| show | 1949
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| Name of the first atomic bomb test by the United States in Alamogordo, New Mexico in July 1945 | show 🗑
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| show | Little Boy
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| show | Fat Man
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| show | Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949)
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| show | Berlin Airlift (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949)
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| show | United States, France, England (all in the West) and the Soviet Union (all in the East)
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| Eventually, the US, French and English sections of Germany united to form a democratic, pro-West government. | show 🗑
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| The capital of West Germany | show 🗑
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| The Soviet-occupied area of Germany eventually became this pro-Communist government | show 🗑
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| The former capital of Germany was split into 2 sections | show 🗑
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| In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form this treaty. If any member was attacked; it would be seen as an attack on all members. | show 🗑
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| In 1955, the Soviet Union and its satellite, puppet states in Eastern Europe created this alliance to counter NATO. It is named after the capital of Poland | show 🗑
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| show | George F. Kennan
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| The Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. | show 🗑
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| show | The Korean War (1950-1953; communist North Korea had invaded South Korea in the spring of 1950; the US and UN forces were sent to push back the North Koreans)
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| show | 38th Parallel
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| show | Domino Theory
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| President Truman was blamed for losing this country to the communists; after Mao Zedong successfully claimed control of this Asian nation in 1949 | show 🗑
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| show | Taiwan (Republic of China)
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| Founder of North Korea and grandfather of current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un | show 🗑
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| show | China
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| Popular American general who launched a successful attack against the North Koreans at Inchon. He was eventually fired by President Truman in 1951 for disobeying the President. | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| This California politician was a well-known anti-Communist crusaders who became Eisenhower's Vice-President. | show 🗑
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| show | The Kitchen Debate
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| show | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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| show | Nikita Khrushchev
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| In 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill claimed that Eastern Europe was now under the control of the Soviet Union in this famous speech. | show 🗑
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| An American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Then-Congressman Richard Nixon led the fight to expose him. | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism)
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| Name for the communist hunts that McCarthy led | show 🗑
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| The House of Representatives committee called many Americans, especially celebrities, to stand before them and to reveal if they had ever been members of the Communist Party or if they knew any Communists in the US | show 🗑
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| Name given to actors/musicians/writers who were denied work for their alleged connections to Communists | show 🗑
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| show | Red Scare
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| Vietnamese revolutionary who pushed for a united, communist Vietnam. | show 🗑
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| show | France
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| show | Indochina
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| Spy plane the US produced for reconnaissance against the Soviet Union | show 🗑
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| show | Gary Powers Jr.
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| show | 17th parallel
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| Crisis over this waterway between France, US and USSR almost led to a nuclear war in 1956 until the US stepped in and cooler heads prevailed. | show 🗑
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| show | John Foster Dulles (His policy was known as brinksmanship. One of the airports in DC is named after him)
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| Youthful Democrat Presidential candidate who won a close 1960 election. He claimed that Eisenhower and the Republicans had let a missile gap happen between the US and USSR | show 🗑
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| Name of the 1957 satellite the USSR shot into space; shocking the world and ushering in the Space Race | show 🗑
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| show | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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| Russian Cosmonaut who was the first human in space | show 🗑
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| show | Hydrogen Bomb
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| show | Cuba
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| Leader of the Communist Revolution in Cuba | show 🗑
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| show | Bay of Pigs Invasion
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| A 13 day period in October 1962 in which USSR nuclear missiles were discovered in Cuba by the US. The closest either side came to nuclear war; but cooler heads prevailed | show 🗑
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| show | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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| show | Lyndon B. Johnson
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| Republican Presidential Candidate who promised to end the war in Vietnam | show 🗑
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| show | detente (French for relaxation of tension)
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| Surprise visit by President Nixon to this country shocked the world in 1972. | show 🗑
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| show | Leonid Breshnev
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| Republican President, elected in 1980, reverse the policy of detente and built up the nuclear arsenal to pressure the Soviet Union into change and collapse | show 🗑
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| Soviet Premier who came to power in 1985 who wanted to reform the Soviet Union. He is known for glasnost or openness; restrictions were eased on literature and arts during his time. | show 🗑
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| This structure began in 1961 and was designed to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West. It was torn down in 1989 | show 🗑
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| Speech Kennedy gave after the Berlin Wall was completed in 1963 showing US solidarity with the West Germans | show 🗑
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| show | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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| Treaty that ended atmospheric nuclear testing in 1963 after the effects of radiation had killed civilians | show 🗑
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