In response to the Soviet Union successfully testing its atomic bomb, Truman created this type of bomb making the US the leading atomic power again.
What is a hydrogen bomb?
100
After WWII, President Roosevelt met with Churchill and Stalin at this location to determine the future of Germany and Poland.
What is Yalta?
100
True or False: Truman felt very prepared to take over the presidency in 1945.
What is False?
100
This is the term for coutries that the Soviet Union ruled from afar.
What are satellite nations?
100
This term refers to mutual military assistance. (think NATO)
What is collective security?
200
This program required that all new hires of the federal government be investigated.
What is the Loyalty Program?
200
Harry S. Truman became President after this man died in April of 1945.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
Truman approved the United States policy of this, in which the United States would stop the spread of communism to other nations.
What is containment?
200
This country desperately tried to maintain their democratic government but ultimately fell to Communism in 1948.
What is Czechoslovakia?
200
With the Marshall Plan, the United States gave this much money to help countries in Western Europe.
What is 13 billion dollars?
300
This Act put strict restrictions on immigrants coming to the US from communist countries.
What is the McCarran-Walter Act?
300
At this Conference, President Truman met with Clement Attlee of Great Britain and Stalin of the Soviet Union.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
300
Truman had the oppotunity to practice his policy of containment with these two nations.
What are Turkey and Greece?
300
This man fought for communism in China and won in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
This man ran "Operation Little Vittles" and dropped candy from his plan to children in West Germany. (full name)
Who is Gail Halvorsen?
400
Hollywood studios created this, which included the names of actors and directors who should not be worked with due to their supposed affiliation with communism.
What is a blacklist?
400
In 1945, Germany was divided into zones occupied by these four nations.
What are The United States, Great Britain, France, and The Soviet Union?
400
During the Berlin Airlift, Truman had planes bring supplies to this area.
What is West Germany (West Berlin)?
400
In Yugoslavia, this man served as a dictator who pursued his own brand of communism.
Who is Tito?
400
This is the term for the group of famous actors and directors who were put on trial for supposed ties to communism.
What is The Hollywood Ten?
500
This couple was executed because of the belief that they gave information to the Soviet Union. (full names)
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenburg?
500
In April of 1945, this number of countries attended the first meeting of the United Nations in San Fransisco.
What is 50?
500
Truman helped to organize NATO, which stands for this.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
500
Truman supported this man's fight for nationalism in China, even though China eventually fell to communism.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
500
HUAC stands for this.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?