The Cold War

1950's fear of USSR communist totalitarian government coming to America led by a Republican senator. 

• McCarthyism
• Red Scare
• Polarization
• Tensions

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

• Space Race
• Star Wars
• Surveillance
• McCarthyism

Soviet Union tries to bring nuclear weapons to island and almost leads to nuclear war between the US and the USSR

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Deterrence
• Berlin Airlift

State of tension and mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

• Cold War
• Vietnam War
• Korean War

State of tension and mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

• Cold War
• Vietnam War
• Korean War

Ruthless dictator of Russia during World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War.

• Joseph Stalin
• Hollywood Ten 
• Joseph McCarthy
• Mao Zedong

First artificial satellite in Earth’s orbit; launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

• Brinkmanship
• Sputnik
• U-2 Incident
• ICBM

invisible political line dividing Europe

• free trade areas
• Berlin Wall
• trenches
• Iron Curtain

During what event did U.S. airplanes drop food and supplies to the people in West Berlin?

• Berlin Airlift
• World War II
• British Air Raid
• Soviet Food Drive

I was a senator in the 1950s.
I wanted to find Communists in the US.
My work was part of the Red Scare.
My ideas became unpopular.
Who am I?

• Henry Ford
• Charles Lindbergh
• Joseph McCarthy
• General Eisenhower