Containment
Berlin & Germany
McCarthyism
Communism in Asia
Cold War Introduction
100
This was the general strategy of the United States to combat communism and keep it from spreading.
Containment
100
When Germany was split, who controlled the East and who controlled the West?
USSR = East
U.S, France, England = West
100
Define McCarthyism
A period during the 1940s and mostly 1950s where people were being accused of being communist and U.S. people were frightened of a potential communist take-over.
100
Who were the main leaders of the Communist parties in China AND North Korea
China: Mao Zedong
North Korea: Kim Il-Sung
100
This system of government is where all means of production and property are controlled by the state.
Communism
200
Who was the President during the two earliest forms of containment policies?
Harry Truman
200
Describe the conditions of East Berlin
Authoritarian government, food shortages, economic control, very little individuality, communist.
200
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A Republican Senator from Wisconsin who led the second Red Scare in the U.S. He often accused anyone who disagreed with him or was a political rival.
200
The dividing line between North and South Korea
38th Parallel
200
These three individuals founded the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution:
Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky
300
This policy was to give money to all European countries who wished to participate in it in order to help repair and rebuild Europe, but also sway people away from Communism.
Marshall Plan
300
East Germany did this to keep the "western facists" out of East Berlin and contain the East Berlin people in the East.
Berlin Wall
300
This government organization was created in order to be able to find people who were "un-American" and potential communist influencers.
HUAC = House Un-American Activities Committee
300
This individual led the U.S. and UN effort to create a counter-attack against the North Koreans. Later fired by Truman.
General Douglas MacArthur
300
This international governing body was founded in order to attempt to solve global issues peacefully and through diplomacy after WWII.
United Nations
400
This policy was giving financial aid to Greece and Turkey to help combat communism spreading to their countries.
Truman Doctrine
400
When Stalin closed down the borders of Berlin, the allied powers led by the U.S. and England resorted to this method to helping the people of Berlin.
Berlin Airlifts.
400
These individuals were accused of being communist spies and were sentenced to death for releasing information to the USSR about the details of the Manhattan Project.
The Rosenbergs.
400
What was the geographical boundary that Truman advised MacArthur not cross when chasing down the North Koreans, AND why did he advise him that?
Yalu River and because he did not want MacArthur to get China involved and potentially start WWIII.
400
Countries that offered as a 'buffer' between the west and Moscow.
Satellite States
500
Iron Curtain
500
This was one of the earliest moments of the Cold War almost becoming "hot" where tanks pointed at each other for about 16 hours threatening all out war.
Checkpoint Charlie
500
It was at this event that McCarthy first unveiled his list of 205 government employees that were communists.
Wheeling Speech (Wheeling, Ohio)
500
North Korea pushed South Korean forces to this bottom right portion of Korea. What is the name of that city?
Pusan
500
The two conferences that discussed the splitting of Germany while WWII was still going on:
Yalta and Potsdam