In June of 1950, the Korean war broke out when N. Korea used military force as this streamed across what?
What is the 38th Parallel
100
The Truman Doctrine was one of the 2 fundamental shifts in post war foreign policy intended to fulfill post war goals. The other was...
What is the Marshall Plan
100
The military allliance of the satellite nations in Eastern Europe was known as
What is the Warsaw Pact
100
A belief held that if one country fell to communists, its neighbors would soon follow
What is the Domino Theory
100
The competition that developed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for power and influence on the world.
What is the Cold War
200
For fear of Westerners this country became involved with the Korean and helped the fight agains South Koreans and Americans
What is China
200
In 1948, Truman began this to move supplies into West Berlin by plane
What is the Berlin Airlift
200
The principal of mutual assistance is known as this
What is collective security
200
this american spy plane was shot down by Soviet missiles regardless of it flying 15 miles above the ground
What is U-2
200
This policy called for the U.S. to resist Soviet attempts to form Communist governments elsewhere in the world
What is Containment
300
This senator from Wisconsin made a list of 205 known communists in the State Department
What is McCarthy
300
From 1948 to 1952, the U.S. sent this amount of money in the form of grants and loans to Western Europe
What is 13 billion
300
This group established in 1938 to investigate disloyality on the eve of WWII, but would probe communist inflitration on the government and even Hollywood
What is HUAC
300
Along with the arms race during the cold war came the technology race. The Soviets launched this in 1957, which blew away American Scientists
What is Sputnik
300
These counries subject to Soviet domination
Who are Satellite Nations
400
This anti communist who had 2 world wars under his belt, was Trumans chice to lead the United Nations forces in Korea
Who is McCarthy
400
During a 15 month span from 1948-49, nearly 200,000 daily flights delivered about this amount of goods to Berlin each day
What is 13,000 tons
400
This famous couple was convicted of espionage during a trial in 1953
Who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
400
In 1953 this presiednt stepped up the Americans weapons development program to counter the new Soviet nuclear threat
Who is Eisenhower
400
Churchill called on Americans to help keep Stalin from closing this...of communist domination and oppresion around any more nations
What is the Iron Curtain
500
This man, acting as a virtual dicatator of Japan during the postwar occupation period, was responsible for establishing Wester democracy in Japan and for creating Japan's new democratic consitiution.
Who is MacArthur
500
Ther Spveots frequent use of its veto power in the Security Council of the U.N. lead to the formation of this organization
What is NATO
500
This important Chinese figure was enabled to strengthen his forces during WWII while in cooperation with Jiang Jieshi, to resist Japanese invasion. Later he would use his forces to spread communism throughout the land.
Who is Mao Zedong
500
In 1956, this person made his new policy of brinksmanship clear in an interview with LIFE magazine
Who is John Foster Dulles
500
Responding to the Truman Doctrine, congress approved $400 MILLION IN AID FOR THESE 2 COUNTRIES