Vocabulary
Government by a dictator
What is Dictatorship?
The President of the United States at the end of WWII going into the Korean War?
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Fear of the spread of communism from one country to another.
What is the domino theory?
Former communist country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia including Russia and Ukraine.
What is the Soviet Union?
Dividing line between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
South Korea advanced into North Korea, angering China, a Communist country on North Korea's northern border.
Why did China join the Korea War?
Grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is communism?
General MacArthur and President Truman had a disagreement on what to do in the war.
Why was General MacArthur fired?
Syngman Rhee
Who was the president of Korea at the time of the Korean War?
Government elected by the people.
What is democracy?
June 1950-July 1953
What dates did the Korean War range from?
This country currently has a socialist government.
What government does Vietnam now have?
A major confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the missiles in Cuba.
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
The first major battle over communism.
What is the Korean War?
This war began in the year of 1954.
What year did the Vietnam War begin?