After WW2
What was created to be a new economic system right after WW2?
The United Nations
Who had won the argument over reparations?
Truman
True or False: Did Truman see the invasion of SOuth Korean as a test of containment policy?
True
What was the fear of communism in the US?
The Red Scare
Who was the president elected in 1952?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was held to plan a postwar world?
The Yalta Conference
The nations controlled by the Soviets were Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and what?
Poland
The American and South Korean troops were driven back into a small pocket of territory near the port of…
Pusan
Who is the Soviet defector who exposed spying?
Igor Gouzenko
More bang for the buck
The Soviets believed that communism would overtake what?
Capitalism
The Communist countries of Europe came to be called the…
Satellite nations
Why did MacArthur want war to expand to China?
MacArthur demanded that the war expand to China because as Chinese forces came through, it drove the UN forces back
What was the blacklisted hollywood writers called?
Hollywood Ten
What was the name of the long rage missile that could hit anywhere?
ICBM
What was another conference that was held while the war against Japan was still in full force?
The Potsdam Conference
What did the term ”the iron curtain” describe?
Was MacArthur fired? If so, by who?
Yes, by Truman
What was the name of the law that required anti communist oaths
the Taft Hartley Act
What was it called when people were willing to risk war to force the enemy down?
Brinkmanship
What did the Declaration of Liberated Europe echo?
“the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live.”
What war was about to begin from the “iron curtain”?
The Cold War
What’s the definition of a limited war?
A war fought to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism.
What was the name of the secret code breaking project?
Project Venona
What are the submarines called that can launch nuclear missiles?
Polaris submarines