Show:
Post Wold War II
Red Scare
Human Beings
Korean War
Politics
100
Military alliance between the Soviet Union and the Eastern European nations it controlled.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
This term is named after a U.S. Senator and means making serious accusations without proof.
What is McCarthyism?
100
Leader of the Soviet Union in 1945.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
The number one nemeis of the U.S. during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
Name of the dog that inspired Richard Nixon's speech that helped keep his candacy for Vice-President in 1952.
Who was Checkers?
200
This provided economic aid to help foreign countries fight communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
Refusing to hire suspected communists.
What is blacklisting?
200
The were executed for spying for the Soviet Union?
Who were the Rosenbergs?
200
The primary reason the United States became involved in the Korean War.
What is to stop the spread of communism?
200
Name of Democrats who favored racial segregation and nominated Strom Thurman for president in 1948.
Who are the Dixiecrats?
300
This offered "friendly aid" to the nations of Europe to help them rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This country, which had recently become communist, helped North Korea during the Korean War.
What is China?
300
He tried to expose Joseph McCarthy for what he was on his television show "See it Now."
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
300
The line the still divides North and South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel?
300
Name for President Trumans program that called for increased Social Security, National Health Insurance, Affordable Housing, etc.
What is the Fair Deal?
400
At this conference leaders of the "Big Three" organized Germany into four zones of occupation.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
400
The purpose of this entity was to investigate disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
400
Most Americans believed this Republican was going to win the 1948 Presidential election?
Who was Thomas Dewey?
400
U.S. General who general relieved of his duty for openly criticizing President Truman.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
400
Name of Chinese government the U.S. backed because they were Communists?
Who were the Nationalists?
500
The location of the UN International Court of Justice was established here after World War II.
What is The Hague?
500
This outlawed closed shops and required union leaders to take an oath saying that they were not Communisits.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
500
This Japanese Prime Minister was convicted and execusted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Who was Hideki Tojo?
500
Location where the U.N. invaded North Korea behind enemy lines.
What is Inchon?
500
Branch of the United Nations that authorizes diplomatic, economic and military actions to settle disputes?
What is the U.N. Security Council?