vocab
11 member who had the power to look into disputes and take actions.
What is security council?
Crossed 38th parallel and surprised attacked South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
Gained power; believed that communism would take over the world, but thought it could triumph peacefully.
What is Nikita Khrushchev?
$400 million in economic and military aid for Greece and Turkey.
What is Truman Doctrine?
Investigated communist influence in the movie industries
what is HUAC(American Activities Committee)
50 nations, new peace keeping body.
What is United Nations?
Supported South Koreans, pushed North Korean troops north.
The most famous anti-Communist activist; a senator, republican from Wisconsin; first three years in Senate, he had acquired a reputation for being an ineffective legislator; realized that he was going to need a winning issue in order to be reelected in 1952, so looking for such an issue, he charged that Communists were taking over the government.
What is Joseph R. McCarthy?
Revived European hopes; over the next four years, 16 countries received some $13 billion in aid.
What is Marshall Plan?
taking advantage of peoples fears and concerns about communism
What is McCarthyism ?
Line or division between South and North Korea - communism.
What is 38th parallel?
All South Korean and United Nation troops pushed out of North Korea.
What happened on January 1951?
The Communists, led by _____, gained strength throughout the country; ruled in northern China; attracted peasants with promises of land reform; benefited from experienced guerrilla army and a highly motivated leadership; relied heavily on financial aid from the Soviet Union.
What is Mao Zedong?
Ten Western European nations--Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal--joined with the United States and Canada on April 4, 1949, to form a defensive military alliance.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
spies to gather info abroad
CIA
Nationalist president of South Korea.
What is Chiang Kai-shek?
Tie. (neither sides win or lose)
What is stalemate?
By the time both countries had the H-bomb, _____ was president.
What is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Linked the Soviet Union with seven Eastern European countries.
What is Warsaw Pact?
Hydrogen bomb thermo nuclear weapon
what is H-bomb
Accused of spying for the Soviet Union, sent to jail.
What is Alger Hiss?
South Korea and North Korea remained separated countries.
What was the result of the Korean War?
Implicated in the Fuchs case, minor activities in the American Communist Party; they denied the charges against them and pleaded the Fifth Amendment, choosing not to incriminate themselves; claimed they were being persecuted both for being Jewish and for holding radical beliefs.
What is Ethel and Julius Rosenburg?
This warning said that the United States would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country; in March, congress had approved this.
What is Eisenhower Doctrine?
Witness were called to testify but refused. They were sen't to jail
what is Hollywood Ten