Cold War Review

3. were eventually sent to prison because they refused to answer questions posed by the HUAC.
4. was designed to help Western Europe rebuild after World War II.
7. Truman responded to the _____ by airlifting supplies into Berlin for about a year.
11. was formed in 1945 to help nations find peaceful solutions to their conflicts.
13. was a popular, two term US president, who succeeded Truman in 1953 and was ex-commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII.
15. stated that the US would help any nation in Europe that was trying to fight of communist control.
16. refers to the tension and potential for war that existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
17. Following WWII, the US adopted the policy of ________ containment to deal with the communist Soviet Union.
18. was the communist dictator who seized absolute power in China following the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

1. was the leader of the war in Korea until he was fired by Truman.
2. stated that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would soon follow.
5. As a result of the ________ , the US succeeded in stopping the spread of communism and keeping South Korea a free country.
6. were found in Eastern Europe and were controlled politically, economically, and often militarily by the Soviet Union during the Cold War era were called.
8. was an organization formed in 1949 by the US and our Western European allies to utilize collective security to repel the spread of Soviet-styled communism.
9. The staunch anti-Communist Wisconsin Senator who launched a series of damaging and unfounded “witch hunts” to identify and discredit suspected communists during the early 1950s was ____.
10. was a democratic nation when it was created.
12. was the imaginary boundary line named by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill that divided Western Europe from Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.
14. ______ Conference, Stalin would not promise the US and Great Britain that he would guarantee free elections in Eastern Europe.