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Communism
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2. Ordinary people and businesses
control the production of goods
and services.

3. What is capitalism?

4. The government is in charge of
everything, including resources
and production.

5. What is communism?

6. A race between nations to build
more powerful weapons.

7. What is an arms race?

8. Americans showed their opinions about the Vietnam War with these.

9. Demonstrations and protests

10. Another word for “remove from power.”

11. What is overthrow?

12. A dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during the
early Cold War years.

13. Who was Joseph Stalin?

14. He led the United States through
the final months of WWII and wanted to help the millions of soldiers that returned home to the US.

15. Who was Harry Truman?

16. The U.S. president who sent our troops home during the Vietnam War.

17. Who was Richard Nixon?

18. He said that secret communists
worked in the United States
government and were spying for the Soviet Union.

19. Who is Senator Joseph
McCarthy ?

20. The key leaders in the Cuban
Missile Crisis.

21. Who were Kennedy, Castro, and
Khrushchev?

22. The two countries that had worked
together to win WWII but after the
war were pushed apart by their
different ideas about economics
and government.

23. Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?

24. Nations that controlled West Germany and West Berlin.

25. Who were the United States,
France, and Great Britain?

26. Nation that controlled
East Germany and East Berlin.

27. Who was the Soviet Union?

28. Winston Churchill said the Europe
was divided by an “____ _______”.

29. What is the ‘iron curtain’?

30. President Truman decided that the
US should help other countries to
protect themselves against communism.
In 1949, the US and other
noncommunist countries formed an
alliance called ____ _______ _____
_________, or _ _ _ _.

31. What is ‘North Atlantic Treaty
Organization’ or ‘NATO’?

32. Reason why the Soviets formed
a blockade in Berlin.

33. What was ‘they wanted to force the other Allies to leave the city’?

34. What did the US and Britain do to break the blockade?
What did this action become
known as?

35. 1) What was ‘fly food and supplies
into the city’?
2) What was the ‘Berlin Airlift’?

36. The Soviets built the Berlin Wall
thirteen years after the blockade
to prevent people from East
Berlin from doing this?

37. What is ‘escaping into the West’?

38. Large parts of this country became communist during the Cold War.
Hint* Not the Soviet Union or any country in Europe

39. What is China?

40. This is what happened in the Vietnam War, after the cease-fire was signed and the U.S. troops were sent home.

41. What is, North Vietnam attacked again and defeated South Vietnam.

42. International organization formed to keep peace in the world.

43. What is the “United Nations or (UN) ”?

44. Reason why the Korean War was fought?

45. What was to ‘prevent the spread
of communism from North Korea
to South Korea’?

46. What was the outcome of the
Korean War?

47. What is ‘neither side won and
the country remained divided
into North and South Korea?’

48. The United States President who
feared a surprise missile attack and
ordered a blockade of Cuba.

49. Who was ‘President John F.
Kennedy?

50. This group of communist fighters used the jungle in Vietnam to hide and attack from.

51. Who were the Vietcong?