Succeeded FDR as President in April 1944, shortly before the end of World War Two.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
A term used to describe the forty-year conflict between the USSR and USA that stopped short of direct military hostilities.
What is the Cold War?
100
After World War II the United States and Soviet Union temporarily divided this country, which became the site of an armed military conflict in 1950.
What is Korea?
100
This law provided home loans and a free education to millions of WWII veterans.
What is the G.I. Bill?
100
Secret police agency established in the US in 1947 to wage a shadow war against the USSR.
What is the CIA?
200
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the outbreak of the Cold War against the United States.
Who is Josef Stalin?
200
A doctrine that united military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to prevent communism from spreading.
What is "Containment?"
200
The US government sent nearly 3 billion USD to the Nationalist government of this country in a failed attempt to stop the spread of communism.
What is China?
200
Truman adopted this policy as a modified form of FDR's "New Deal" that emphasized economic prosperity.
What is the Fair Deal?
200
The international body established in 1948 to replace the failed League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
300
Republican Senator from Wisconsin who falsely claimed that he had a "list" of government officials with connections to the Soviet Union and international communist movement.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
In June 1948, the USSR intensified hostilities with the US by blockading all rail and highway routes into this city.
What is Berlin?
300
After mainland China fell to communism, the Nationalist Government fled to this Island in 1949, which it controls to this day.
What is Taiwan?
300
In 1952, this war hero became the first Republican elected US President in twenty years.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
300
In 1947, this Congressional body began hearings to expose (largely imagined) communist influence in Hollywood, the press, museums, and higher education.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
400
This married couple were tried as spies and executed for passing atomic secrets to the USSR.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
400
In 1947, the US Congress appropriated 400 million USD to defeat communist uprisings in these two European countries.
What are Greece and Turkey?
400
This outspoken official refused to accept Truman's attempts to negotiate a peace with North Korea.
Who is Douglass MacArthur?
400
This term is used to capture the anti-communist hysteria of the American public in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
What is the "Red Scare?"
400
When the Truman administration shut down this powerful wartime agency in 1946, it triggered the rapid inflation of prices, especially food.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
500
Head of US Occupation forces in Japan who later led the failed Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
500
A Hollywood film studio cancelled the production of a film based on this folk hero because the story was too "communist."
Who is Robin Hood?
500
The Korean war convinced Truman to sign this secret document, which endorsed massive increases in America’s nuclear arsenal, covert actions by the CIA, and a quadrupling of the defense budget.
What is NSC-68?
500
Where the US government tested the powerful Hydrogen Bomb (H-Bomb).
What are the Marshall Islands? (Bikini Atoll)
500
Congress established this agency in 1946 to develop nuclear energy, but in reality 90% of its resources were dedicated to the construction of weapons.