AH - Topic 8 Test (The Cold War)

pledge to help any free people resisting communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Arms Race

• Mao Zedong

• ICBMs

competition to strengthen each side's armed forces and weapon systems

• Arms Race

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• ICBMs

• MAD

tasked with finding Communist spies hiding in every part of American life, including Hollywood

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Arms Race

• Mao Zedong

• MAD

Communist Vietnamese Leader

• Ho Chi Minh

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Mao Zedong

• ICBMs

Communist Chinese Leader

• Mao Zedong

• Arms Race

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• ICBMs

theory that if the U.S. pushed Communist powers to war, they would back down because of American nuclear superiority

• Brinkmanship

• Arms Race

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Mao Zedong

both sides possessed destructive weapons that could obliterate the other side

• MAD

• Arms Race

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• ICBMs

missiles tested by the U.S.S.R. that could target any location in the U.S.

• ICBMs

• Arms Race

• Mao Zedong

• MAD

first satellite to orbit the Earth

• Sputnik

• Arms Race

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• ICBMs

North Korean Communist leader

• Syngman Rhee

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Mao Zedong

• ICBMs