Meeting attended by FDR, Churchill, and Stalin in California; Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan.
What is the Yalta meeting?
100
Germany was divided by this number of nations after the war.
What is four?
100
UN commander in Korea.
Who is Douglas McArthur?
100
Another word for sabotage.
What is subversion?
100
Stalin had the Soviet troops surround Berlin in an attempt to drive the West out of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
200
Charter signed by 50 nations; intended to settle disputes between nations and prevent future wars.
What is the United Nations?
200
A plan of domestic reforms presented by Truman; aimed at solving some of the nation's economic problems.
What is the Fair Deal?
200
When North Korea invaded South Korea, it gained control over this city.
What is Seoul?
200
A term applied to the use of unproved accusations against political opponents.
What is What is McCarthyism?
200
US Air Force pilots worked around the clock to fly in supplies, food, and even coal to Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
City in the Middle East claimed by both Arabs and Jews.
What is Palestine?
300
President Truman did this when miners and railroad workers were striking.
What is threatened to draft them into the Army if they did not return to work?
300
This country fought on the side of the North Koreans.
What is China?
300
This item helped bring about the downfall of McCarthy.
What is the television?
300
Dewey was expected to win the 1948 Presidential election, but instead, this man won.
Who is Truman?
400
A program of economic aid for Europe that became a vital part of the policy of containment.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
A workplace that hires only union members.
What is a closed shop?
400
This general was fired by President Truman.
Who is Douglas McArthur?
400
This was created to list individuals whose loyalty was suspicious; it kept celebrities from working in Hollywood's film industry.
What is a blacklist?
400
The reason millions of Jews relocated to Israel as a safe haven after WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
500
An imaginary item that cut off Eastern Europe from the West.
What is the iron curtain?
500
An act that provided billions of dollars in loans to help returning soldiers and provided unemployment/health benefits while they looked for jobs.
What is the GI Bill?
500
An area where military forces could not enter; sort of a "no man's land" between North and South Korea.
What is demilitarized zone?
500
This couple was executed because they members of the Communist Party and were accused of giving secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.