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Korean War
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Program of American economic assistance to Western Europe after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
Truman’s policy calling for the U.S. to support nations threatened by communism
What is the Truman Doctrine (Containment)?
100
The leader of the Soviet Union when the Cold War started
Who is Premier Joseph Stalin?
100
Line that separated North Korea and South Korea after WWII, the source of the first armed conflict of the Cold War
What is the 38th Parallel?
100
The U.S. President when the Cold War started
Who is President Harry S. Truman?
200
Operation that moved supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
Term coined by Churchill to describe division between communist and non-communist life
Who is the Iron Curtain?
200
Communist leader who came to power in Cuba and overthrew the U.S. backed leader and seized property owned by U.S. corporations
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
The battle in which the U.S. reclaimed the capitol of South Korea
What is the Battle of Inchon?
200
The youngest U.S. President to take office and the youngest U.S. President to die
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
300
Barrier built by the East German (Stalin) government to separate communist and non communist Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
Popular uprising against communism in Hungary that was eventually stopped by the USSR
Hungarian Revolution
300
The Republican Senator who accused 205 government officials of being communist
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
the reasons why the U.S. military leader was removed from his post as leader of the UN forces during the Cold War
What is MacArthur wanted to continue to push forward in attempt to unite Korea and even push back communism in China, but he disagreed with President Truman and was taken from his post?
300
President that warned against the "military industrial complex"
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
Alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war that still exists today (founding nations include Belgium, Great Britain, the U.S., and France)
What is NATO?
400
Counter-communist (Soviet Union) revolution in Czechoslovakia eventually put down by Warsaw Pact communist leaders
What is the Prague Spring?
400
Former State Department official investigated as a possible communist spy; convicted of perjury
Who is Alger Hiss?
400
Sum up the Korean War
- North Koreans invaded and almost overtook all of South Korea - UN forces pushed North Korea all the way back past the 38th to China's border - MacArthur called out and Korea left divided at the 38th Parallel
400
The leader of the UN forces from the United States during the Cold War
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
500
Alliance between Soviet Union and nations of Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
500
The gathering of delegates from 44 nations to agree upon a new set of rules for the post WWII international monetary system.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
500
Husband and wife convicted and executed in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
Who is Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
500
3 Effects of the Korean War
Americans frustrated at loss of life with such limited results Desegregated Military Units Increased military spending Diplomatic Standoff with China
500
The leader of Great Britain at the beginning of the Cold War
Who is Prime Minister Winston Churchill?