Red Scare
Yalta & Potsdam
Potsdam pt2 + Paris Peace Treaties + MISC
MISC
100

Communists were often associated with this color

What is red?

100

This man replaced FDR

Who is Harry S. Truman?

100

Truman hinted at the existence of this to Stalin at the Potsdam conference.

What are nuclear weapons/atomic bombs?

100

This is an economic and political ideology in which there are no class divisions and there is communal ownership of land

What is communism?

200

This man led the Red Scare in America accusing celebrities and government officials of being communist, despite him having no real evidence 

Who is Joseph Mccarthy?

200

This man replaced Winston Churchill

Who is Clement Atlee?

200

America did not want to go to war with communist nations, instead they followed this policy

What is a policy of containment?

200

This is an economic and political ideology in which there is private ownership of land and businesses, it promotes competition and survival of the fittest. It often leads to class divisions 

What is capitalism?

300

HUAC is an acronym for this

What is the House of Un-American Activities Committee?

300

The Allied countries agreed to divide Germany into this many zones.

What is 4?

300

These were a series of trials that saw German officials tried for their war crimes, committing genocide, and other inhumane acts during WWII

What are the Nuremberg Trials?

300

This was a term used to describe the political divide between democratic western nations and communist Eastern European nations

What is the Iron Curtain?

400

This is the year that Joseph McCarthy claimed he had a list of 205 U.S. officials who were communists 

What is 1950?

400
He is the only leader of the big three Allied countries that will be present for the entirety of both the Yalta and Potsdam conference 

Who is Joseph Stalin?

FDR died and Churchill lost his reelection

400

This organization is like the League of Nations, but it actually does it job of protecting the peace of the world (mostly)

What is the United Nations?

400

The term "iron curtain" became very literal when Russia constructed this in Eastern Germany

What is the Berlin Wall?

500

Stalin wanted to turn the countries around Russia into communist nations to act as a ________________. (fill in the blank)

What is a buffer zone?

500

In this conflict, sometimes called the Forgotten War, America sought to intervene and prevent the country from falling to the hands of communists. The country to this day remains divided in half, and technically is still at war.

What is the Korean War?

500

This pact was a military agreement between the communist countries in Eastern Europe to protect themselves from the perceived threat of the democratic nations in the West

What is the Warsaw Pact?