Cold War: Red Scare, Abroad, and Close

HUAC stands for

• The House Un-American Activities Committee

• Honesty Under Americans Council

• House Underground Actions College

The HUAC began a series of investigations designed to show

• Communist activity that was destroying Democracy

• Actors were breaking the law

• College professors were teaching lies

Because of the Cold War, the United States got into military conflicts in

• Poland and Romania

• Vietnam and Korea

• Russia and Germany

American fighting in Vietnam lasted

• 6 months

• 2 years

• 10 years

Richard Nixon changed the approach to addressing the rise of Communism by

• Stopping trade with Communist countries

• Using nuclear weapons

• Talking it out with leaders

The Cold War ended when

• the USSR collapsed

• President Reagan convinced them to switch to Democracy

• the US exploded a nuclear weapon in the USSR