This was the economic plan that helped rebuild Western Europe. It was a unilateral American plan to further strengthen the American economy through trade and to prevent weakened European countries from falling to communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This is the word that describes US foreign policy for decades. The goal was to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
100
This is the European country that controlled most of Africa during the Colonial period.
What is France?
100
This is the country where the Chinese Nationalist leadership is maintained.
What is Taiwan?
100
This is the name of the Communist dictator of China who led the country from 1939-1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
This is the structure that was built to separate East and West Berlin. It fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
This is the economic system that is also called a command economy. The government controls the means of production and distributes resources as needed.
What is communism?
200
This area of the world and Africa experienced the longest and most widespread period of colonial subjugation.
What is Southeast Asia?
200
This is the name of the escape of the communists in 1934.
What is the Long March?
200
This is the 33rd president of the United States. He dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, promised American intervention to stop communism, and opposed legislation in the US meant to expose communist activity.
Who is Harry Truman?
300
This was the first test of Soviet aggression. Joseph Stalin prevented people in West Berlin from travelling or accessing goods from Western Europe. The Western countries responded with a massive airlift.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
300
This is the economic system that relies on a free market. Private ownership is encouraged, but there is also a huge gap between the rich and the poor.
What is capitalism?
300
This is the country that replaced British mandated (controlled) Palestine in 1948. The region has been in turmoil since that time.
What is Israel?
300
This is the country China modeled its economic plans after.
What is the USSR?
300
This man was commander of the Allied forces on D-Day, became president, and opposed McCarthyism.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This is the presidential policy that promised American support/intervention in any place struggling against communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
This is the military alliance, which still exists today, that includes North America and Western European countries.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
400
This is the decade when most African countries gained independence.
What is the 1960s?
400
This is the name of the period when Mao Zedong pushed the country from an agrarian economy to an industrialized economy. Thousands died from famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
400
This man came up with a list of suspected communists and led a "witch hunt" to expose disloyalty to the United States.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
500
This is the meeting that took place between the Big Three a few months before FDR died. The leaders discussed the future of defeated Germany and agreed to divide it into four zones of occupation.
What is the Yalta Conference?
500
This is the period in history when two superpowers waged an ideological war against each other, fought through the support of client states and proxy/surrogate wars.
What is the Cold War?
500
This is the organization that underwent great change: from a membership of 35 countries with developed economies and mostly white populations to 127 member nations - most from developing countries with nonwhite populations.
What is the United Nations?
500
This is the period when Mao Zedong tried to revitalize his revolution by purging anyone who supported traditional or capitalist beliefs.