A U.S. policy announced by president Harry S Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
By this communist group that crossed the 38th parallel line, the war was started.
What is North Korea?
100
The United States president during the beinning of the Cold War.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
He supported the determination to contian Communisim in Vietnam.
Who is Lydon B.Johnson?
100
The idea that when one country falls to communism, other countries would fall as well.
What is the domino theory?
200
A republican from Wisconsin who, during his first 3 years in the senate, acquired a reputation for being an ineffective legilature. He also founded McCarthyism.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
An imaginary line that North Korea crossed when starting the war with South Korea.
What is teh 38th parallel?
200
The notionalists' leader in South Korea.
What is Chiang Kai-Shek?
200
The American commander in the South Vietnam. He was a general who continued to request soliders.
Who is William Westmoreland?
200
When U.S. military raids on a South Vietnamese village, intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong but often resulted in the destruction of the village and displacement of inhabitants.
What are search and destroy missions?
300
The program proposed be secreatary of state, George Marshall in 1947, underwhich the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to he;p them rebuild after World War 2.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
He called the war to be fought over in China, instead of North and South Korea.
Who is Douglas McArthur?
300
The communist leader in North Korea.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
He worked closely with president Johnson in dispatching tens of thousands of U.S. soilders to fight in Vietnam.
Who is Robert McNamara?
300
The public distrust of statements made by the government.
What is a credibility gap?
400
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization which made an alliance between The United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, to stop communism.
What is NATO?
400
This was China's role in the Korean war.
What was make South Korea retreat?
400
They were accused of having minior activist charges against them, and when they denied the charges they pleaded the 5th and got the dealth penalty.
Who is Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
400
This group of people wanted Presidant Johnson to pull troops out of the war, and eventually end the war.
What are the doves?
400
The list of people whom they in effect condemned for having a communist background.
What is the blacklist?
500
An effort to block the soviets' attempt to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries.
What is containment?
500
The outcome of the Korean War after fighting for so long.
What is both sides finally signed an armistice?
500
He was head of the Soviet Communism Party, in Febuary 1956.
What is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
This group of people wanted President Johnson to move forward into the war.
What are the hawks?
500
Tje practice of threatening with massive military retalliation for any aggression.