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The doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Truman Doctrine
The CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency.
Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
The CIA participated in the Cold War by
carrying out secret operations in other countries.
True
The ________ was the program to develop an atomic bomb.
Manhattan Project
As American forces approached Japan, the Japanese forces
fought almost to the last, preferring killing themselves to surrender.
Funding for a new type of road infrastructure that would allow automobiles to move faster.
Interstate System
Doctrine where a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
Eisenhower Doctrine
From 1919 to 1925 and beyond, Korean communists led internal and external warfare against the Japanese. In _____, the Nationalist National Revolutionary Army and the communist People's Liberation Army helped organize Korean refugees against the Japanese military, which had also occupied parts of ______.
China
_________ signed a letter to President Roosevelt, explaining the importance of atomic development.
Albert Einstein
Who made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan?
Harry S. Truman
Many women worked in this new type of economic sector.
Service
An international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949.
NATO
_________ INVOLVEMENT IN THE KOREAN WAR. On June 24, 1950, the North Koreans invaded South Korea. A few days later, Truman ordered U.S. troops to the aid of South Korea and convinced the United Nations (UN) to send military aid as well, in what was referred to in diplomatic circles as a “police action.”
U.S.
On ________, the Allies launched their invasion of Normandy.
D-Day
Why did Stalin want the Allies to open a second front in France?
He wanted Germany to divide its troops between fronts
Truman's domestic policy to improve America.
Fair Deal
Began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.
Korean War
The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea and allowed the return of prisoners.
end of the war
American forces in the Pacific followed a _________ strategy.
Island Hopping
President Truman's chief priority in using the atomic bomb was to
save American lives.
The middle ground between conservative and liberal.
Modern Republicanism
In 1950, what event began the conflict on the Korean peninsula?
The North Korean army invaded south of the 38th parallel.
_______ became President after FDR's death.
Harry S. Truman
_______ was an attempt to drive a wedge between American and British forces.
Battle of the Bulge
A huge increase in population following WWII.
Baby Boom
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers (1929-77).
U-2 Incident (Cold War)