Show:
Important People
Korean War
Fab 50s
Seeing Red
Grab Bag
100
This person led US forces in Korea, also causing China to get involved in the conflict
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
100
What line of parallel latitude separates North and South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel?
100
What was developed by our President in the 50s that changed the way people travel?
What is the interstate?
100
This is the name for the Eastern European countries that became Communist after WWII
What is the iron curtain?
100
What profession was part of the red scare blacklist?
What are film directors?
200
This person was the well loved President in the '50s
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
200
What proclamation would Truman use to defend US forces to contain and stop Communism in Korea?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
What word would describe the American national budget of the '50s?
What is a surplus?
200
People feared this takeover from within during the red scare.
What is subversion?
200
This is a desire for wealth and owning things more than compassion for people
What is materialism?
300
This couple was executed for treason upon suspicion that they sold atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets.
Who were the Rosenbergs? (Ethel & Julius)
300
This city's leadership changed 5 times during the Korean conflict.
What is Seoul?
300
These are the two types of "races" that we found ourselves in with the Soviets in the 1950s
What is the space race and arms race?
300
This is how US defied the Soviets by getting supplies to both East and West Germany
What is an airlift?
300
This is when machines begin to take over jobs from people
What is automation?
400
This Senator fanned the flames of the red scare by accusing many innocent people of being a Communist.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
400
This number would be a good estimate of the number of AMERICAN casualties of the Korean War
What is 100,000 - 136,000?
400
This is what America and Russia accomplished at the Geneva Convention in the '50s
What is peaceful coexistence?
400
He would become the Communist leader of Russia
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
In the 1980s - Reagan challenged Russia to "tear down this wall?" Where was this wall that was built right after WWII?
What is Berlin?
500
Who did Harry Truman narrowly defeat in election of 1948?
Who is Thomas Dewey?
500
This is the type of victory our film said we achieved in the battle of Korea
What is a moral victory?
500
This profession faced the toughest time in the 1950s
What is farming?
500
This person will become the Russian leader after the death of Joseph Stalin
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
What is the capital city of North Korea?
What is Pyongyang?