Important People
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The time period when fighting was done by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers.
What is the Cold War?
Where did the Nationalists flee after being defeated by the Communists
Where is Taiwan?
A policy written by President Truman to contain communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
Who is Winston Churchill?
Leader of the Nationalists in China
Who is Jiang Jeishi
Thanks to the U.S., what is known as the _____ brought in supplies to a city cut off by Stalin
What is The Berlin Airlift?
The line between North and South Korea
What is the 38th parallel?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The final resolution of the Korean war.
What is a cease-fire/stalemate?
This plan, created in June 1947, would supply $3 billion to Western European aid, and was a tremendous success
What is The Marshall Plan?
Churchill's name for the countries making up the border of the USSR.
What is the Iron Curtain?
State owned farms.
What are Collectives or communes?
An anti-communist who believed there were communist spies working for the U.S. government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
American government official accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Statutes of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
Alger Hiss
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. Sympathetic to the US and democratic interests.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Leader of Communist China
Who was Mao?
Knowing that both sides would be destroyed in the end if one was to fire a nuclear weapon.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
This country invaded South Korea ,which started the Korean war.
What is the North Korea?
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This general was removed from command when he failed to follow President Truman's orders in North Korea, supported using the Nuclear Option against North Korea
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics