People
First man to land on the moon during Apollo 11 in 1969?
Who is Neil Armstrong?
US policy to stop the spread of communism and push it all the way back to the Soviet Union.
What is Containment?
Churchill's idea that symbolized the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Right after WWII, the US and USSR entered a period of extreme tensions, but not physical war.
What is the Cold War.
Chinese gov't fled to Taiwan and received UN recognition in the Security Council.
What is Nationalist Gov't?
The father of communism and wrote the Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx.
A gov't funded US space agency created in 1958 to study aeronautics and space.
What is NASA?
System where all property is public and the people work and are given things by the gov't according to their needs.
What is Communism?
Type of bomb created by the US and USSR, that is more deadly than the atomic bomb.
What is the Hydrogenbomb?
The leader of the Communist revolution in China and became their leader.
Who was Mao Zedong?
Federal lawyer that was put on trial for espionage and the Pumpkin Papers were evidence for his conviction.
Who is Alger Hiss?
US policy to loan out money to Western Europe to help them rebuild and prevent them from falling to communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Goal and idea of North and South Korea, wanting to become one nation, but under their own terms.
What is Reunification?
Soviets built a wall around Wester Berlin to stop people from going into the East.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Peace organization created after WWII that replaced the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
Leader of Soviet Russia and led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
Who is Lenin?
US intervention policy that pledged to help countries resist communist revolutions.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A campaign to root out any communist spies in America, which led many accusations, though many were false.
What is McCarthyism?
Smaller and more powerful branch of the UN that can veto legislation and controls the Peace Troops.
What is the Security Council?
The current buffer area between North and South Korea and is one of the most protected zones.
What is the DMZ? (demilitarized zone)
First people to be executed during a time of peace for espionage. Convicted for selling atomic secrets to the USSR.
Who are the Rosenburgs? (Julius & Ethel)
The unofficial end to the Korean war in 1953, where North and South Korea agreed to stop fighting, but never signed a treaty.
What is a Cease Fire?
What is the Domino Theory?
Committee created to investigate those people suspected of communist ties.
What is the HUAC? (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Facility ran by the UN, created on the DMZ to allow North and South Korean diplomats to meet.
What is the Join Security Area?