Show:
People
Terms
Wars
Acts and Alliances
Soviet Threat
100
He is best known for fueling the 2nd Red Scare
Who is Senator Joe MacCarthy
100
Effort by the US to stop the spread of communism
What is containment
100
The Korean war started when ______ Korea invaded ________ Korea.
What is North Korea invaded South Korea
100
Under this Doctrine, the United States pledged to help nations threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
100
When the Soviet Union blocked Berlin in 1948, what was ordered by President Truman to bring them aide?
What is the Berlin Airlift
200
He was the American General who led forces in Korea.
Who is Douglass MacArthur
200
Atomic weapon test in the US to test home construction, shelters and food storage.
What is Operation Cue
200
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel.
200
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is Warsaw Pact
200
Year that the Soviets detonate their first atomic bomb
What is 1949
300
He developed the plan to rebuild Europe
George C. Marshall
300
Idea of taking enemies to the precipice of nuclear destruction hoping the other side will back down.
What is brinksmanship
300
The US states gave aid to the French in their effort to retake this former colony
What is Vietnam
300
This was the treaty organization created of Western European countries and the US for mutual defense.
What is NATO
300
Country in the Western Hemisphere that the Soviets supported in their communist revolution.
What is Cuba
400
Revolutionary communist leader of Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro
400
This is an imaginary line that Churchill had said descended upon Europe.
What is the iron curtain
400
During the Korean war when the U.N came close to the Chinese boarder, this group helped the north Koreans.
Who are Chinese volunteers
400
The National Security Act of 1947 created this new agency.
CIA
400
This was the married couple who were convicted of being spies and giving secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
500
Communist leader of Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh
500
Organization of the House to find communists in Hollywood.
What is HUAC
500
Leader of the Chinese communists in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong
500
The Japanese were forced to accept fundamental changes in their government at the end of the war. What do they have no right to.
What is engage in war.
500
First artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
What is sputnik