This is the location of the divide between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
100
This was the controversial location of U.S. missiles, which threatened the Soviet Union.
What is in Turkey?
100
This president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb to end WWII.
Who is President Truman?
200
This is the name of the general that was relieved of command by the President during the Korean War.
Who is General MacArthur?
200
This was the unsuccessful secret operation to overthrow Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
This president served during the "Nifty Fifties", a time of peace a prosperity during the Cold War.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
This Communist nation, north of Korea, was a concern for the the U.S. because war might break out with this country if the United Nations forces went too far north.
What is China?
300
This was President Kennedy's initial decision for how to deal with Khrushchev and the threat of missiles in Cuba.
What is a blockade around Cuba?
300
This person assassinated President Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
400
Proving that the U.S. was willing to enforce this policy was the main reason for our involvement in the Korean War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
This is what the U.S. agreed to do to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is remove our missiles from Turkey?
400
President Truman helped create this financial plan to help Europe recover from WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
This ONE WORD term can be used to summarize the outcome of the Korean War.
What is STALEMATE?
500
The one American life that was lost during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is a U2 pilot?
500
This is the president that established the Peace Corps.