Containment
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This war began in 1950 when Communist forces from the north crossed the 38th parallel into the south.
What is the Korean War?
This Cold War strategy involved pushing dangerous situations to the edge of war to force an opponent to back down.
What is Brinkmanship?
This type of neighborhood exploded in popularity as Americans moved outside cities after WWII.
What are the suburbs?
In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked land access to this divided German city.
What is Berlin?
This U.S. program provided billions of dollars in economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This U.S. general led UN forces early in the war and famously proposed expanding the war into China before being fired.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Brinkmanship relied heavily on the threat of using these extremely destructive weapons.
What are nuclear weapons?
This New York development became the most famous example of mass-produced suburban housing.
What is Levittown?
The U.S. responded to the blockade with this massive operation delivering supplies by air.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This president first announced the policy of helping nations resist communism in a 1947 speech to Congress.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This surprise amphibious landing in 1950 helped push North Korean forces out of South Korea.
What is Battle of Inchon?
This 1962 Cold War crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This program helped millions of veterans buy homes and attend college after WWII.
What is the GI bill?
This military alliance formed in 1949 to defend Western nations against the Soviet Union.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Containment was first applied when the U.S. sent aid to these two countries to resist communist pressure in 1947.
What are Greece and Turkey?
The war ended in 1953 with this type of agreement, which stopped the fighting but did not officially end the war.
What is an armistice?
The strategy of brinkmanship depended on both sides fearing this concept of total nuclear destruction.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In the 1950s, fear of communism inside the U.S. led to investigations led by this senator.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The Soviet Union responded to NATO by forming this rival alliance in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This policy of containment was based on the belief that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries might fall as well.
What is Domino Theory?
This line roughly dividing North and South Korea after the war is still one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world.
What is the 38th parallel?
This U.S. Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower promoted brinkmanship.
Who is John Foster Dulles?
This rock-and-roll performer became a symbol of the new youth culture emerging in the 1950s.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This principle of NATO states that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all.
What is collective defense?