Diplomacy & Conferences
Containment Theory
Marshall Plan
Korea
McCarthyism & Domestic Containment
100

Which 1945 meeting of the Big Three first agreed in principle to divide Germany?

Wht is Yalta

100

Who wrote the Long Telegram that shaped early Cold War US Policy? 

Who is George Kennan

100

What was the popular name for the European REcovery Program the US launched in 1948?

What is the Marshall Plan

100

At what latitude was Korea divided after WW2?

What is the 38th parallel

100

Who was the senator that became the public face of domestic containment? 

Who is Joseph McCarthy

200

Name the 1945 conference where Truman, Stalin, and at first Churchill met after Germany's surrender

What is Potsdam

200

Give Kennan's prescription for US policy toward the Soviet union

What is firm and vigilant (but patient) containment

200

Name two major recipients of Marshall Plan aid

Who are UK, Greece, Turkey, France, Netherlands, etc

200

In what year did North Korea invade South Korea, starting the Korean War? 

What is 1950

200

Name one of the two high profile spy cases that intensified fears of communist infiltration in the US

What is Alger Hiss or the Rosenbergs

300

What permanent council/group did the Postsdam agreements propose to handle post war peace settlements? 

What is the Council of Foreign Ministers

300

According to Kennan, did the Soviet Union rely on immediate military conquest or on long term political and economic pressure?

What is long term political and economic pressure (aka indirect influence)

300

Name one European country barred from recieving Marshall plan aid because of Soviet pressure or alignment

What is Czechoslavakia, Poland, Albania, etc

300

Name the location of the landing led by General McArthur that swung the war in the South's favor

What is Inchon

300

What was the name of the committe that investigated groups and people suspected of being communist in the US?

What is the House on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

400

At which conference did Roosevelt press for Soviet help against Japan and grand Soviet influence in East Asia as part of the bargain? 

Yalta

400

What are the two assumptions Kennan makes that reflect US perspectives and anxieties? 

What are the Soviet feeling of being encircled by capitalist states, their belief that Soviet's wanted to expand territory

400

What is one reason the US provided economic aid BESIDES humanitarian relief?

What is prevent communist influence, protect US interests in Europe

400

Why did China become involved in the Korean War?

What is the UN/US forces were pusing too far into North Korea scaring them that they might also move into China

400

Identify two due process or constitution violations that occured under McCarthyism

What are: guilty until proven innocent, blacklisting, loss of employment, required to testify, no jury of peers

500

Explain one way Postsdam contributed to the breakdown of the Grand Alliance and the onset of the Cold War

What are: different views on reparations, Soviet actions in Eastern Europe, new US President with an atomic bomb

500

Analyze one limitation or criticism of containment as a strategy? 

What is risked poor relations that could lead to war, or prioritized security over democracy, or was expensive to the US in terms of money and weaponry

500

How did understanding aid "per capita" reveal US strategic priorities? 

What is showed the idea of containment by keeping countries near communist countries from being influenced/taken over

500

Name the success and non-success of the Korean War for the US

What are communist takeover prevented and failure to change status of country

500

Did McCarthyism strengthen or weaken American democracy (two reasons for your answer please)?

What is: weakened -- failure to follow due process, citizens stripped of liberties and rights OR strengthened protected national security, did find some communist spies