Cold War Quiz

Republican Senator that led a crusade to investigate officials he claimed to be communist

• Harry Truman
• Joseph Stalin
• Joseph McCarthy
• Douglas MacArthur

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• containment
• entrapment
• isolationsim
• communsim

 worldwide rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union

• Hot War
• WWII
• Cold War
• Frosty War

Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements

• Marshall Plan
• Warsaw Pact
• Fair Deal
• Truman Doctorine

organization founded in 1945 to promote peace and human rights

• GATT
• NATO
• United Nations
• HUAC

Fear that communist were working to destroy the American way of life.

• Red Scare
• brinkmanship
• containment
• blacklist

Term coined by Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states & Western Europe

• Warsaw Pact
• Iron Curtain
• Berlin Wall
• Satellite State

foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after WWII

• Truman Doctorine
• Fair Deal
• United Nation
• Marshall Plan

Latitutde line that divided North & South Korea at approximately the midpoint of the peninsula

• 41st Parallel
• 37th Parallel
• 38th Parallel
• 40th Parallel

Program in which the U.S. & British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during Soviet blockade

• Berlin Airlift
• Berlin Blockade
• Berlin Train Race
• Berlin Plan