Name _____________________________________________
Period _____
A.P. U.S. History
Cold War Terms
Put the following Cold War terms in order (put year in when possible)
_____ U-2 Crisis
_____ Geneva Meeting w/Ike
_____ Berlin Airlift
_____ Potsdam Conference
_____ Truman Doctrine
_____ US explodes hydrogen bomb
_____ Creation of NATO
_____ USSR explodes hydrogen bomb
_____ Suez Crisis
_____ China falls to communism
_____ Korean War armistice
_____ North Korea invades South Korea
_____ “Kitchen Conference”
_____ Sputnik
_____ Creation of U.N.
_____ George Kennan outlines containment
_____ USSR explodes atomic bomb
_____ Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
_____ Geneva Accords split Vietnam
_____ Fidel Castro takes over in Cuba
_____ Marshall Plan
_____ Yalta Conference
_____ Hungarian Rev. put down by USSR
_____ Signing of Warsaw Pact
_____ Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
_____ CIA intervenes in Iran & Guatemala
Put the following Red Scare terms in order (put year in when possible)
_____ National Security Act passed
_____ “Zeal for Democracy”
_____ Alger Hiss convicted
_____ NSC-68
_____ Yates v. US
_____ National Defense Education Act
_____ McCarran-Walter Immigration
and Nationality Act
_____ Election of Eisenhower
_____ Federal Employee Loyalty Act
_____ McCarthy-Army Hearings
_____ Federal Civil Defense Admin. created
_____ HUAC opens Hollywood hearings
_____ Smith Act
_____ Dennis v. U.S.
_____ Rosenberg Trial
_____ McCarthy makes first accusations
_____ Taft-Hartley Act
_____ McCarran Internal Security Act
_____ Re-Election of Truman
_____ Hatch Act