The committee that investigated Communist subversion.
What was HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
100
Winston Churchill's famous speech in Fulton, Missouri where he lambasted the Soviets for closing off half of Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain speech?
100
Truman's political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
Under the aegis of this international organization, Truman intervened to protect South Korea.
What is the United Nations?
100
The "father" of Israel.
Who was David Ben Gurion?
200
McCarthy belonged to this Congressional chamber.
What was the Senate?
200
The leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until 1953.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
200
Turman's domestic policy program which was mostly blocked by the Republicans in Congress.
What was the Fair Deal?
200
This line of latitude represents the border between the partitioned Koreas.
What is 38th parallel?
200
The contested capital city for both the Palestinians and Israelis.
What is Jerusalem?
300
A former official in the Roosevelt Administration, he was accused of spying. Because the statute of limitations had expired, he was convicted of perjury.
Who was Alger Hiss?
300
Those countries under Soviet control in Eastern Europe.
What were the "satellite nations"?
300
Truman formally adopted this as his position toward the former Soviet Allies as a reasonable and strategically sound foreign policy.
What was containment?
300
Truman's strategic position in Korea which prevented a full-scale attack on China and kept US forces focused on the goals of containment.
What was limited war?
300
The Israelis fought this power to gain its independence.
What is Britain?
400
The Executive branch conducted a thorough screening for Communists through this 1947 initiative.
What was the Loyalty Review Program?
400
George Kennan wrote this famous foreign policy note from the American Embassy in Moscow detailing his recommended position the US would adopt taking a long view of Soviet collapse.
What was the Long Telegram?
400
Perhaps Truman's only critical civil rights action.
What was desegregating the military?
400
The commanding general in Korea who would be fired by Truman for his intolerable war aims.
Who was Douglas McArthur?
400
The political ideology that called for migration of Jews back to a national homeland in Palestine.
What is Zionism?
500
American cryptographers cracked a Soviet spy code through this project.
What was the Venona Project?
500
The German city which hosted an important conference where President Truman first met Stalin in July 1945.
What was Potsdam?
500
Truman's Secretary of State had his name attached to the massive aid provided to Western European nations devastated by World War II.
What was the Marshall Plan?
500
The ceasefire, still in effect today as no peace treaty has ever been signed in relation to the Korean War, was adopted in which year?
What is 1953?
500
The first document that justified Zionist claims to a homeland.