Containment and U.S. Foreign Policy
The U.S. policy of trying to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
What happened to Germany after WWII?
divided into occupation zones
The line that divided North Korea and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The fear that communism was spreading inside the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
The Supreme Court case that ruled school segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A U.S. policy that promised aid to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The city that was divided even though it was located inside Soviet controlled East Germany.
What is Berlin?
The communist side during the Korean War.
What is North Korea?
The senator known for accusing people of being communists, often without strong evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The woman who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A U.S. program that gave economic aid to Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The event where the United States and its allies flew supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked land access.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The main reason the United States became involved in the Korean War.
What is to contain communism and defend South Korea?
Making accusations of disloyalty or communism without proper evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
The protest against segregated buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The main reason the United States supported the Marshall Plan.
What is to rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism?
A military alliance between the United States, Canada, and Western European countries.
What is NATO?
What nation DIRECTLY helped North Korea fight against South Korea during the Korean War
China
The congressional committee that investigated suspected communist influence in the United States.
What is HUAC?
The civil rights leader who became well-known during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
What was America willing to do to stop the spread of communism?
supported countries, alliances, and wars that opposed communism
What is the name of the invisible line between American and Soviet controlled Germany?
What is the Iron Curtain?
What percentage of UN troopers were American?
80%
The effect fear of communism had on many Americans during the 1950s.
What are suspicion, investigations, blacklists, and fear of being accused of disloyalty and nuclear war?
In 1957, President Eisenhower used federal troops to protect and allow black students to enter a school where?
Little Rock, Arkansas.