The buck stops here
First American president of the cold war
Harry Truman
Nation divided at the 38th parallel after WWII, and roughly still so today
Korea
Country "lost" to communism in 1949
China
Year Eisenhower was first elected President of the US
1952
Color most often associated with communism
Red
Truman invited this world leader to speak in his home state of Missouri
Winston Churchill
The "Truman Policy" was aimed at stopping the spread of communism in these two countries
Greece and Turkey
This conflict is often known as the "forgotten war"
Korean War
Eisenhower's Vice President
Richard Nixon
Animal that symbolized the Soviet Union
the bear
Truman's policy based on stopping the spread of communism was called
containment
Non-communist city extremely important to all US presidents during the cold war, located in communist East Germany
West Berlin
Churchill used this metaphor to warn of the growing separation of communist and non-communist nations in Europe
Iron Curtain
Eisenhower's policy of going to the edge of nuclear war, and spending on bombers and nuclear bombs
Brinksmanship
This animal encouraged people to "duck and cover" if there was a nuclear attack
Bert the Turtle
These two events made many Americans believe Truman was soft on communism
Loss of China
Firing MacArthur
Chinese communists entered the Korean war when UN/US forces got too close to this river
Yalu River
Truman's response to Stalin's Berlin blockade was to do this
airlift supplies the West Berliners
Created by the Eisenhower administration to move war materials and troops in a more rapid manner
Interstate Highway Act
People put these in their backyards in case of a nuclear attack
Bomb shelters/fallout shelters
Truman fired MacArthur when the general wanted to do this
Use atomic weapons on China
The DMZ divides these nations
North and South Korea
Chiang Kai-Shek's supporters fled to this island after Mao's victory in China
Taiwan
Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to use this new technology in his campaign
television
Satellite that was symbolic of Soviet success early in the space race
Sputnik