Postwar Problems & Power Plays
Winston Churchill used this phrase to describe the division between Western democracies and Eastern communist nations.
What is the Iron Curtain?
President Truman promised support to countries resisting communism in this 1947 policy.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This war (1950–1953) was fought between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
The buildup of nuclear weapons by the U.S. and the Soviet Union was known as this.
What is the Arms Race?
This period of intense fear of communism in the U.S. took place in the late 1940s and 1950s.
What is the (Second) Red Scare?
This 1945 meeting brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss how Europe would be divided after WWII.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This Cold War policy aimed to stop communism from spreading to new countries.
What is Containment?
This U.S. general led UN forces in Korea and was later fired by President Truman.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This German city was divided into four occupation zones after WWII.
What is Berlin?
This Wisconsin senator claimed to have a list of communists in the U.S. government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This international organization was formed in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation among nations.
What is the United Nations?
This economic aid program gave billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This strategy involved going to the edge of war without actually fighting.
What is Brinkmanship?
This doctrine meant that if one superpower launched nuclear weapons, the other would respond with equal force.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
This term describes the practice of making accusations of disloyalty without solid evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
This meeting in 1945 included Truman instead of Roosevelt and showed growing tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This 1949 military alliance united the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations against the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This term refers to secretly gathering information about another country.
What is Espionage?
This Asian country became communist in 1949 under Mao Zedong.
What is China?
This House committee investigated suspected communists in government and Hollywood.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
These 5 countries made up the United Nations Security Council.
What is the United States, Soviet Union (Russia), China, United Kingdom, France?
In 1948–49, the U.S. delivered supplies by air to keep West Berlin from falling to communism in this event.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This communist military alliance was formed in 1955 in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This doctrine suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This persuasive technique used posters, films, speeches, and media during the Cold War to influence public opinion, spread fear about communism, and build support for government policies.
What is propaganda?