This was Truman's response to the Soviet Union blockading all of the roads into Berlin, shutting off food shipments.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
This was the President when the Korean War began.
Who is President Truman?
100
This president brought about the end of the war in Korea.
Who is Eisenhower?
100
This was the name of the man who exploited fear of communists and created mass hysteria in order to gain political power.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
This was the name for the competition between the Soviet Union and the US for influence around the world.
What is the Cold War?
200
This is the name of the policy America used to throughout the Cold War that was designed to keep communism from spreading.
What is containment?
200
This nation controlled Korea throughout World War II.
What is Japan?
200
The launch of this satellite resulted in the US to respond with the creation of NASA.
What is Sputnik?
200
This was the name of statements disavowing communism that government workers and other people had to make in order to keep their jobs.
What are loyalty oaths?
200
This was the name for the imaginary line in Europe between democratic-capitalist nations and Soviet controlled communist nations.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
This plan was designed to provide money to rebuild Europe after World War II and was designed to get nations to resist communist influence.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
America fought under this group's flag during the Korean War.
What is the United Nations?
300
The Eisenhower Doctrine, issued after the Suez crisis, said America would intervene to help any nations in this region to resist communism.
What is the Middle East?
300
This was the name of the group of directors and producers who were outed as communists.
What is the Hollywood 10?
300
This was the name for Eastern European countries that served as buffers against attack for the Soviet Union.
What are satellite nations?
400
The Truman Doctrine pledged support for these two nations resisting communist insurgencies.
What are Greece and Turkey?
400
This line of latitude was the border between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
400
The acronym MAD stands for this phrase that explains what will happen if either the USSR or the US launches a nuclear weapon.
What is mutually assured destruction?
400
This was the committee that investigated allegations of communism against government employees and prominent persons.
What is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
400
The creation of this group was the Soviet response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
This theory said that when a country falls to communism, the countries that are closest to it will also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
500
This was the name of the Korean leader who was supported by the Soviets and the Chinese.
What is Kim Il Sung?
500
This company requested CIA assistance in overthrowing a Guatemalan government that was perceived to be sympathetic to communists.
What is the United Fruit Company?
500
This journalist used the newer medium of television to expose the fallacy of communist hysteria in the early 1950's.
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
500
This phrase describes the newly-developed relationship between the government and the defense-industry that Eisenhower said would threaten the American way of life.