Origins & Conflicts
Who is credited with making the "Iron Curtain" speech?
Who is Winston Churchill.
Name the first U.S. President to utilize a containment policy?
Who is Harry Truman.
Name the man made satellite of the Soviet Union that became the first to orbit the Earth?
What is Sputnik
Most political commentators and many Americans thought that because of the controversial decisions that Truman had made in 1948, he would lose the 1948 election. What controversial decisions had he made?
What is he had integrated the armed forces and recognized the nation of Israel.
The Cold War started when U.S.S.R. refused to allow free and open elections in what country?
What is Poland.
Name of US aid to help European nations rebuild after the devastation of World War II?
What is the Marshall Plan.
During the Korean War, General MacArthur proposed using an atomic bomb on what country?
What is China.
Defensive military alliance formed with the motto, "any attack against one is an attack against us all"?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
At the start of the Berlin crisis, Berlin was located in what part of Germany?
The zone controlled by the Soviet Union in what would become East Germany.
The Truman Doctrine provided aid to what two nations to ensure that they remained outside the influence of the Soviet Union?
What are Greece and Turkey.
Who was Gary Powers?
U-2 pilot who was shot down spying on the USSR.
At the start of the Korean War, Gen. MacArthur launched what invasion to relieve pressure on American troops trapped a Pusan?
What is the Inchon Invasion.
Name the Republican Presidential candidate in 1952 who "vowed to go to Korea" thus implying an end to the war?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower or "Ike".
Truman's response to the Berlin crisis dropped millions of tons of humanitarian supplies into the city. This effort was referred to as what?
What is the Berlin Airlift or Operation Vittles.
Name the international peace keeping organization est. by the Allies of WWII at the end of the war?
What is the United Nations.
Eisenhower spent more money on this program than on any other during his Presidency?
What is the Interstate Highway and Defense Systems Act.
In the Fall of 1950, MacArthur promised the war was over and troops would be home by Christmas. What army invaded that ultimately prevented that from happening?
What is China.
When the North Korean army invaded South Korea, Truman turned to what organization to take action?
What is the United Nations.
The veto power in the UN (United Nations) is afforded to what five countries in 1945?
Hint: The founding nations of the UN
What is the U.S.; England; Soviet Union, France, and China.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's hysteria of communism in the government came to an end when he claimed there were communists in what branch of government?
What is the U.S. Army.
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
What is NASA.
The issue of bringing the war to an in was complicated because of what issue?
What is how to exchange POW's.
After the French lost Indochina, it became Vietnam and was divided along what parallel?
What is the 17th parallel.