Origins of The Cold War
The 33rd President of the United States
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations
Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude
What is the 38th Parallel?
Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that investigated people thought to be Communists
Former State Department official arresting for espionage (spy)?
Who is Alger Hiss?
The agency created to compile intelligence from military and state department and to perform secret operations in foreign countries.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
Program under which the United States gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
Leader of the Communist forces in China
Who is Mao Zedong?
The people called before HUAC who did not cooperate
What is the Hollywood Ten?
Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies
Who is Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
The Division of Europe between free and Communist countries
What is the Iron Curtain?
Taking measures to prevent the spread of Communist rule to other countries
What is Containment?
Trying to achieve a positive outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of conflict.
Who is brinkmanship?
List of People in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee
What is Black List?
This Nation Supported North Korea
What is the Soviet Union and China?
Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What is a Satellite Nation?
Island off the Coast of China
What is Taiwan?
Attacks on suspected Communists in the early 1950s
What is McCarthyism?
Theory that one country falling to Communist influence would quickly lead to other countries in the same area falling too
What is the Domino Theory?
U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover
What is the Truman Doctrine?
State of Hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States, but without military action
What is the Cold War
War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950
What is the Korean War?
Republican senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This Nation Supported South Korea
What is the United States?