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Domestic Issues
Korean War
Truman
Eisenhower
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This person pulled off an upset of the 1948 Republican candidate when he was well behind in polls and experts had all picked against him.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
This is who gave the ultimate approval to begin a "police action" against North Korea and ultimately the invasion of North Korea.
Who is the UN Security Council?
100
This President is responsible for issuing the policy of containment, stopping the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
Eisenhower proposed this plan that would change travel in the United States and make the country reliant on automobiles.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
100
In the sequence of Cold War events, put these in correct order starting with the earliest to the most recent: 1. Creation of NATO 2. Warsaw Pact signed 3. Korean War 4. Berlin Airlift
What is Berlin Airlift, Creation of NATO, Korean War, Warsaw Pact signed?
200
This was the most popular television show during the 1950's, featuring the first woman to run her own production company.
What is "I Love Lucy"?
200
This was the outcome of the Korean War?
What is Korea remaining divided at the 38th parallel?
200
This policy emerged after WWII that pledged that the United States should resist the spread of communism by giving financial aid to countries in Europe and is an example of the containment policy.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This foreign policy measure pledged that the United States would resist communist aggression in the Middle East, Soviet aggression in particular.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
200
The rivalry that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII that lasted until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 was known as this.
What is the Cold War?
300
This Senator from Wisconsin gained fame as being the top Communist Fighter in the nation in the early 1950's.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
Following the Korean War, this organization was established to help Asian nations that would resist communism.
What is SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization)?
300
Truman and his Secretary of State developed this plan to give financial aid to countries to help rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This meeting took place between Eisenhower and Krushchev to help ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the U.S./Soviet Summit?
300
The GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades, was 1 of 3 organizations that promoted economic stability after WWII. These were the other 2.
What is the World Bank and the IMF (International Monetary Fund)?
400
This speech by Winston Churchill angered Josef Stalin and caused heightened Cold War tension and a buildup of military in the Soviet Union.
What is the "Iron Curtain" speech?
400
The United States was successful in this policy during the Korean War by not allowing communist North Korea to conquer South Korea.
What is the containment policy?
400
During Truman's Presidency, the Soviets placed a blockade around West Berlin that prompted the United States, Great Britain, and France to begin the Berlin Airlift. The United States wanted to prevent this from happening in West Berlin.
What is to prevent communism from spreading to West Berlin?
400
During Eisenhower's Presidency, the Soviet Union entered into this alliance of communist nations that would support each other militarily in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
This organization was established in 1945 to promote a system of global cooperation and a collective security among developed nations.
What is the United Nations?
500
This is the region of the United States (not international) where the government did their nuclear weapons testing.
What is the American Southwest?
500
North Korea attacked South Korea in 1951 to attempt this. The United States was able to contain communism in Korea but was unable to complete this process, leaving the country separated at the 38th parallel.
What is re-unification?
500
This is 1 of the 2 countries in Eastern Europe that was successful in resisting communism and thus received financial aid from the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan. The 2 countries received a total of over $400 million combined.
Who are Greece and Turkey?
500
This was Eisenhower's theory as to why the United States should lend aid to South Vietnam in their attempt to resist communism from North Vietnam.
What is the "domino theory"?
500
This major Cold War event prompted 12 democratic nations, including the United States, into joining NATO.
What is the Berlin Blockade or Berlin Airlift?