Korean War
This latitude line marks the border between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
This US policy would supply aid to nations threatened by the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This country was split into two parts after World War II.
What is Germany?
This communist leader took over China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This Soviet leader replaced Stalin after his death in 1953.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
He commanded the UN forces during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This plan provided financial aid to Western nations that had been severely damaged from World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This city was split into two parts after World War II.
What is Berlin?
This nationalist leader was exiled from China and set up a proxy government in Taiwan.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
The idea that the development of nuclear weapons on both sides would deter either side from using them.
What is mutually assured destruction?
This city is the capital of North Korea.
What is Pyongyang?
This imaginary border separated the Western democracies from the Eastern communist bloc.
A tactic used by the Soviet Union to prevent supplies from getting in or out of West Berlin.
What is a blockade?
The people backed Mao because of his promise to provide the nation with this essential resource.
What is food?
the US policy of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.
What is brinkmanship?
This nation won the Korean War.
Who is "no one"?
These two nations were provided the most aid from the US in the first couple years after the war.
The Allied effort to provide West Berlin with supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This theory describes the idea that if one nation falls to communism all neighboring nations would be at risk.
What is the Domino Theory?
This man was President Eisenhower's Secretary of State.
Who is John Foster Dulles?
MacArthur crossed this river prompting 300,000 Chinese soldiers to enter the war on the side of North Korea.
What is the Yalu River?
The fall of this nation to communism proved to be the greatest failure of the containment policy.
What is China?
The name for the military alliance between the Soviet Union and other communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This was listed as one of the key reasons why the US did not provide more aid to the nationalist government in China.
What is corruption?
Eisenhower created this system to allow US jets to land anywhere in the nation at any time if need be.
What is the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act?