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Technology & Warfare
Europe and Korea
100
A defensive military alliance formed by 10 Western European nations, the US, and Canada.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
100
American General who led UN forces and launched a counter attack against the North Koreans.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
100
Taking measures to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
100
The satellite launched successfully by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
100
The phrase used by Winston Churchill to describe the division of between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
200
At the end of WWII, Japanese troops south of this surrendered to the Americans.
What is the 38th parallel?
200
The nationalist Chinese leader who retreated to Taiwan.
Who is Kai-shek?
200
Eastern European countries in which the Soviet Union installed communist governments.
What are satellite nations?
200
The willingness to enter into an all-out war.
What is brinkmanship?
200
The capitol of South Korea.
What is Seoul?
300
The term given to the act of a certain US Senator accusing someone of being a communist without having any evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
300
A couple who were accused of espionage and sentenced to death.
Who are the Rosenbergs.
300
The agency which investigated Communist influence in the movie industry.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
300
The first country to successfully explode an H-bomb.
What is the United States?
300
Initiative in which the Americans and British flew food and supplies into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin airlift?
400
The military alliance formed between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
The person who gained power in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
Agency which investigated government employees and dismissed those found to be disloyal to the US.
What is the Loyalty Review Board?
400
A weapon even more destructive than the atomic bomb.
What is the H-bomb/Hydrogen bomb?
400
The conflict that occurred after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel and launched a surprise attack on South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
500
A warning that the US would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
500
The pilot who had been captured by the Soviets after having his plane shot down in Soviet airspace.
Who is Francis Gary Powers?
500
The downing of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960.
What is the U-2 incident?
500
A proposal put forth by Eisenhower which would allow flights over the US and Soviet Union to guard against surprise nuclear attack.
What is the open skies proposal?
500
This was created as part of an agreement at the end of the Korean War to separate the North and the South. This is still set up today.
What is a demilitarized zone?
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