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This was President Truman’s policy to halt the expansion of communism.
What is containment?
100
In 1949, communist forces under Mao Zedong took over this country.
What is China?
100
This general disobeyed President Truman and invaded North Korea bringing its allies into the war.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
100
What US President responsible for resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
He served as a pastry chef in Paris before leading a war against France and United States in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
The policy of giving US economic aid to the nations of Europe to help them rebuild their war torn economies.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This is how Julian Rosenberg became famous.
What is as a communist spy who was executed in USA.
200
This is how the Korean War began.
What is North Korea invaded South Korea?
200
After the Cuban revolution, this was their form of government.
What is communism?
200
This incident made Congress commit large numbers of US troops to Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
300
A term first used by former Prime Minister of the UK, Winston Churchill, to describe the political barrier between the East and West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
When Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948, President Truman ordered this.
What is an airlift of supplies?
300
This is the boundary line between North & South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
300
This led the Cubans to believe that the U.S. was considering overthrowing the Castro regime.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
300
This was the name of the US military plan to bomb North Vietnam “back to the Stone Age”.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
400
President Eisenhower’s theory that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
400
Which leader of the Soviet Union supported the building of the Berlin Wall?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
When UN forces invaded North Korea, this was the response of China.
What is join the war effort to support North Korea?
400
The Soviet Union’s military alliance with Cuba led to this action to protect Cuba from the USA.
What is place nuclear missiles in Cuba?
400
This was the turning point in the war and turned the US public against the war in 1968?
What was the Tet Offensive?
500
Name a country that refused aid from the Marshall Plan.
What is Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Russia?
500
The practice of recklessly accusing someone of supporting or belonging to the Communist Party.
What is McCarthyism?
500
The US government officially called the Korean War this.
What is a police action?
500
The US had missiles in this country which threatened the Soviet Union (much like the Soviet missiles in Cuba threatened the US).
What is Turkey?
500
This new technology was key to the Vietnam War.
What is the helicopter?