Foreign Policy
What is containment?
US foreign policy developed in the 1940s to prevent the further spread of soviet expansionism and communism.
What is McCarthyism?
A campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other industries under the senator Joseph McCarthy
What was the aim of this war?
North Korea wanted to reunite North and South Korea under one communist government.
What were the names of the two scares that occurred in the US at this time?
The lavender scare and the red scare
What was the “Red-Scare” ?
Public hysteria caused by the potential rise and spread of communism in the United States.
What was dollar diplomacy?
The method by which the US achieved its foreign policy aims in the Americas, East Asia, and the Pacific through loans and economic assistance to foreign countries
What are salami Tactics?
This is the elimination of opposition by slicing away all of its strengths.
What was the name of the communist ruler of North Korea during the war?
Kim Il-Sung
Public education, film, television, music.
Why was Hollywood investigated during the red scare?
Many people were accused of “embedding Soviet propaganda in popular films”
What was the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty)?
A security agreement about hemispheric military cooperation, also shared vision of anti-communism.
What was the ’Lavender Scare’?
The United States thought homosexuals were susceptible to espionage because they were blackmail risks, so many gay and lesbian people had their jobs taken as a result of their sexuality.
How long did the war last? How long was it supposed to last?
It lasted three years and two days. It was meant to last only two months.
Why was the FCDA created?
It was intended to assure Americans that steps could be taken to survive nuclear war
During the Truman Era, what became the goal in the fight against communism?
It was no longer about democracy, but about stability.
A political consequence of the Korean War in the USA was a commitment to what foreign policy?
Containment, especially in South Asia
What did Senator Joe McCarthy present which led to the rise of McCarthyism?
A list of 205 names which he claimed to be members of the Communist Party, who were still working in the state department.
Name at least 2 other countries Involved in the Korean War.
Canada, China, Colombia, United States, United Kingdom
What did the HUAC do as a result of the red scare?
They began to investigate Hollywood, as well as other industries, for communists.
NATO allies feared the Korean War was aimed at distracting the USA from what?
Further Soviet expansion into Europe.
how was the Korean war consistent with the US foreign policy?
-US goal of preventing the spread of communism
How was the film industry affected by the domestic policies presented by the Truman Era?
It led to the blacklisting of many qualified actors because of their sexuality or other arbitrary factors caused by McCarthy’s policies.
Why was there a North and South Korea?
It was split up after WWII, with South Korea going to the US and North Korea going to the Soviet Union.
The end of the Korean War allowed Latin American countries to realize what about the US?
The USA was more interested in containment than assisting in economic development.
What change was made to the pledge of allegiance as a result of the threat of communism?
Communism was considered ‘godless’, Catholics lobbied to add the phrase “under God” to the pledge.