Names of the three leaders who met at Yalta to discuss the post-war world in the event of an Allied victory.
Who are Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin?
100
New York governor who ran on the Republican ticket in the 1948 election, was projected to win but lost to Truman in a stunning upset.
Who is Dewey?
100
The latitude at which the line dividing North and South Korea after the war lies.
What is 38 degrees north? (38th parallel)
100
An international peacekeeping organization created after World War II to replace the ineffective League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
100
The United States' response to Stalin's blockade of Berlin, in which airplanes delivered food and supplies to West Berlin.
What is the "Berlin Airlift?"
200
A political process that Stalin promised to allow Soviet-occupied astern Europe to do once the war ended.
What are free elections?
200
Act Congress passed in 194 to aid war v veterans by giving them the financial means to attend college, start businesses and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
200
General initially tasked with leading UN troops in the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
A competition among countries to build bigger and more powerful weapons and armies.
What is an arms race?
200
Built by the Soviets with the express purpose of dividing East and West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
A famous phrase coined by Churchill to describe the "barrier to understanding and information" (Davidson & Stoff, 2011, P. 837) between the West and the USSR.
What is the "iron curtain?"
300
A rise in prices of goods experienced by Americans after the war ended.
What is inflation?
300
A condition, experienced in the Korean War, in which opposing forces are deadlocked without a victory for either side.
What is a stalemate?
300
A country with enormous economic, political, and military power with the ability to influence events worldwide.
What is a Superpower?
300
A military alliance created by the Soviet Union in 1955, in response to the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
The name given to a policy developed by Harry Truman; the policy's goal was the containment of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
Growing neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities that reaped the benefits of the postwar economic boom while inner cities decayed.
What are suburbs?
400
A zone where no military is allowed, separating North and South Korea to this day?
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
400
Agency created by Congress in response to the Soviet launch and orbit of the Sputnik, tasked with with launching space missions of their own.
What is the NASA?
Daily Double BONUS: What does NASA stand for?
400
A new form of music popularized in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm and blues and country music.
What is Rock and Roll?
500
A plan developed by Truman's Secretary of State designed to help Europe recover economically from World War II and therefore not fall under communist rule.
What is the "Marshall Plan?"
500
The nickname for a period of increased birthrate in the postwar years.
What is the Baby Boom?
500
Country MacArthur wanted to attack in order to win the Korean War.
What is China?
500
Moniker for a week-long event in which the United States, Cuba and the USSR argued about the sudden presence of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
Word to describe the communism witch hunt spearheaded by a conservative Wisconsin senator.