The Cold War
Postwar Politics
Better Dead Than Red
The Korean War
Historical Vocabulary
100
He delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Truman's home state of Missouri.
Who is Prime Minister Winston Churchill?
100
Ten-Hut! With this act, soldiers returning from WW2 can receive money for college and job training.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act/G.I. Bill?
100
He leads a crusade against suspected Communist spies and sympathizers in the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
This latitude divides North Korea and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
100
Any fight, battle or war that ends in little or no territory gained by either side.
What is a stalemate?
200
One outcome of this post-WW2 conference was the division of Germany into four, allied-occupied zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
200
The Republican candidate for president in the 1948 election.
Who is Thomas Dewey?
200
HUAC
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
200
Risky but rewarding maneuver that allowed UN forces to cut the North Korean Army in half and drive it out of South Korea.
What is the Inchon Landing?
200
To lie, especially in a court of law.
What is perjury?
300
This U.S. foreign policy following the war gave states threatened by Communist aggression monetary and military assistance.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
Also known as the States' Rights Party.
What are the Dixiecrats?
300
Magazine editor who accuses Alger Hiss of being a spy.
Who is Whittaker Chambers?
300
Geographic feature serving as the boundary between North Korea and China.
What is the Yalu River?
300
Practice of separating people along racial lines
What is segregation?
400
After losing to Tse-tung in 1949, he and his Nationalist forces fled to Formosa (Taiwan).
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
400
Sorry, guys, but this law outlawed closed shots, a workplace that hires only union members.
What is the Taft-Hartly Act?
400
Hey, Commie! You have to register your organization with the U.S. government now according to this act.
What is the McCarran Act?
400
North Korea's capital.
What is Pyongyang?
400
Method of dealing with communist spread by conducting short, limited military engagements.
What is containment?
500
The Soviet Union's answer to NATO, in which member states enter into a defensive security agreement where an attack on one is an attack on all.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
Truman's program for civil rights protection, making lynching a federal crime, and a higher minimum wage meets heavy resistance in Congress.
What is the Fair Deal?
500
Author of The Crucible, a famous play that compares McCarthy's witch hunt with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Who is Arthur Miller?
500
The leader of South Korea during the Korean War.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
500
Former British controlled area in the Mid-East claimed by both Arabs and Jews.
What is Palestine?
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