Cold War
This was a USA policy during the Cold War to limit the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Eisenhower was born in this State.
What is Texas?
What is the Domino Theory?
Truman worked as this in Jackson County to begin his political career.
What is a judge?
The Korean War was roughly this long.
What is 3 years?
This was the type of economy the USSR had during the Cold War
What is communism?
He was Eisenhower's VP.
Who was Richard Nixon?
This is a marked rise in birthrate, (occurred in U.S. following WW2).
What is a baby boom?
Truman signed this in 1948, to provide assistance to Europe post WW2.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This was what separated North and South Korea before, and again at the conclusion of the Korean War.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The launching of Sputnik caused this to begin in the Cold War.
What was the Space Race?
Eisenhower promised to go here is he won the presidential election.
What is Korea?
This is a policy that aims to relax/ease tensions between nations, (happened during the Cold War when Nixon won office).
What is detente?
This pledged to provide military, political, and economic help to any country being threatened by communism takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
He was the president at the beginning of the Korean War.
Who was Harry Truman?
He was the leader of the USSR at the end of the Cold War?
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
What is the interstate highway system?
This was the political/military barrier that isolated Soviet-controlled countries of Eastern Europe following WW2.
What was the Iron Curtain?
This was created to assist soldiers who were returning from WW2 financially.
What was the GI Bill of Rights?
He led the United Nations troops in Korea for the majority of the war.
Who was General MacArthur?
This was a term used to describe the fear of a widespread rising of Communism.
What was the Red Scare?
Eisenhower planned an executed this very famous invasion.
What was the D-Day invasion?
A tactic that was an attempt to overthrow a government by using people who are working on the inside.
What is subversion?
This was who Truman defeated in the 1948 election.
Who was Thomas Dewey?
This was one of the most important battles of the Korean War.
Hint : an amphibious attack was used
What was the Battle of Inchon?