History Questions

This policy was intended to defend the Middle East against an attack by an anticommunist country.

This U.S. policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them.

This U-2 pilot was convicted of espionage after his plane was shot down and he was forced to parachute into Soviet controlled territory.

This group's covert actions helped to topple government's in Iran and Guatemala.

In 1956, the Soviets brutally put down a pro-democracy rebellion in ______.

At various times, McCarthy claimed to have personal knowledge of 57, 81, or 251 Communists working in the _________.

The policy of going to the edge of all-out war is known as ______.

The satellite nations of the Soviet Union were members of this military alliance.

The McCarran Internal Security Act made it unlawful to plan any action that might lead to the establishment of a dictatorship in the United States.

In promoting sentence on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, ______ declared the crime "worse than murder" because it had put "into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb."

He led the nation that developed the first hydrogen bomb.

Dwight D. Eisenhower told an aide, "If one of these {U-2's} were lost when we were engaged in apparently sincere deliberations, it could . . . ruin my _______."

The U.S.-Soviet competition for supremacy of the earth's orbit was known as the ______.

As Secretary of State, he proposed that the United States declare its intention to use massive retaliation against any aggressions.

Claiming to be persecuted for being Jewish and holding radical beliefs, ______ pleaded not guilty to the crime of espionage.

______ could only be charged with perjury, and espionage, because too many years had passed since the spying had taken place.

In 1947, ______ subpoenaed 43 witnesses from the Hollywood film industry to give testimony on whether Communists influenced the American film industry.

Joseph McCarthy's downfall came after he made Communist-related access against the White House.

Joseph McCarthy first rose to popularity by pursuing charges against alleged state department spy Alger Hiss.

The ______ decided not to cooperate with the investigation into whether the American film industry had been influenced by Communists.