During WWII Russia was an ally of the United States.
What is True?
100
Today North Korea is a __ nation.
What is a communist?
100
After WWII this organization was founded as a way for all the nations of the entire world to meet together as a forum to discuss world problems and figure out a solution before turning to war.
What is the United Nations?
100
The "enemy" of the United States after World War II.
What is communism (or the Soviet Union)?
100
The commander of the US and United Nation forces in Korea.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
200
In an effort to prevent the western European nations from turning to communism, the _____ was an aid program aimed at helping nations rebuild and combat hunger, desperation and chaos.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
The General in charge of the US and UN forces in the Korean war.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
US involvement in the Korean War is an example of this policy.
What is containment?
200
___ won the Korean war.
What is no one, it was a stalemate.
300
This nation was divided into Western and Eastern zones after World War II.
What is Germany?
300
This communist nation entered the Korean Conflict and helped the North Koreans push the UN and US forces back to the 38th parallel.
What is China?
300
The idea that Nuclear Weapons would be used to keep peace, instead of as a weapon to be used defensively in a war.
What is deterrent?
300
Stalin, in an effort to embarrass the Western powers, cut off supplies by blocking all railroad and roads into this city.
What is West Berlin?
400
The ideological divide between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, as voiced by Winston Churchill in a speech he made in the United States.
What is the iron curtain?
400
The capital of North Korea
What is Pyoungyang?
400
In a ___ nation, the state controls all property and economic activity.
What is communist?
500
The goal of this nation was to keep Germany divided and weak so it could never threaten them again.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
MacArthur's solution for winning the war.
What is drop many nuclear bombs on North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union.
500
This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the US had ever entered during peacetime. It still exists today.
What is NATO? (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
500
Named for the US President who came up with this policy, it remained the foreign policy of the United States. Its aim was to help countries involved in attempted takeovers by giving them aid so they could defeat potential communists.