Red Scare
Communists were often associated with this color
What is red?
This man replaced FDR
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Truman hinted at the existence of this to Stalin at the Potsdam conference.
What are nuclear weapons/atomic bombs?
This is an economic and political ideology in which there are no class divisions and there is communal ownership of land
What is communism?
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?
This man replaced Winston Churchill
Who is Clement Atlee?
America did not want to go to war with communist nations, instead they followed this policy
What is a policy of containment?
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?
HUAC is an acronym for this
What is the House of Un-American Activities Committee?
The Allied countries agreed to divide Germany into this many zones.
What is 4?
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?
This was a term used to describe the political divide between democratic western nations and communist Eastern European nations
What is the Iron Curtain?
This is the year that Joseph McCarthy claimed he had a list of 205 U.S. officials who were communists
What is 1950?
Who is Joseph Stalin?
FDR died and Churchill lost his reelection
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?
The term "iron curtain" became very literal when Russia constructed this in Eastern Germany
What is the Berlin Wall?
Stalin wanted to turn the countries around Russia into communist nations to act as a ________________. (fill in the blank)
What is a buffer zone?
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?
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?