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First person to speak of an "iron curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
The dividing line that currently separates North and South Korea and that also was the dividing line after WWII.
What is the 38th parallel of latitude?
100
What happened on September 2, 1949 that caused a sudden change in U.S.-Soviet relations?
What is the setting off of an atomic bomb by the Soviet Union?
100
The reaction to the fear that communists both outside and inside the America were working to destroy American life.
What is the Red Scare?
100
Year that mainline China became communist when the nationalists fled the mainland and took control of the lare offshore island of Taiwan.
What is 1949?
200
Named after the U. S. Secretary of State who unveiled it, this was a recovery plan for Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
American general who favored invasion of China during Korean War and distrusted Truman's policy of a limited war and was fired after sending a letter to House Republicans that was viewed as insubordination.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
200
Revolt in 1956 that was brutally crushed by Soviet soldiers.
What is the Hungarian revolution?
200
A catchword for extreme, reckless charges that was named for the U.S. Senator who first charged the State Department was infested with communist agents and then was part of highly publicized televised hearings about communist agents in the United States.
What is McCarthism?
200
Abbreviated HUAC, this committee in the House of Representatives was responsible for holding hearings about communist ties to the entertainment industry.
What is the House Committee on Un-American Activities?
300
Doctrine proposed in 1947 to financially aid nations struggling against communist movement, such as Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
U.S. President when cease-fire declared in Korean conflict on July 27, 1953.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
This person emerged as the new head of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin died (after a short power struggle).
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
the 1940 act that the Truman Administration used to cripple the Communist Party in the Untied States. this act made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.s. gvoernment.
What is Smith Act?
300
Leader of the Nationalist forces who fought in the Chinese civil war against the communists led by Mao Zedong.
Who is Jiang Jieshi (or Chiang Kai-Shek)?
400
Military alliance formed in 1949 with twelve Western European and North American nations.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
400
Port city that General MacARthur chose for a counterattack against North Korea and landed troops there on the morning of September 15, 1950.
What is Inchon?
400
The closing of this canal by Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened the flow of Middle Eastern oil to Europe.
What is the Suez Canal?
400
Person who had worked on developing the atomic bomb but in 1954 was denied future access to classified information because he had friends and family who belonged to the Communist Party.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
400
Military Alliance formed with Society Union and all communist states in Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
American diplomat and leading authority on the Soviet Union who presented a blueprint for the American policy that became known as "Containment.'
Who is George F. Kennan?
500
Defensive alliance formed in Asia that was aimed at preventing spread of communism and included such members as Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, France, Britain, and United States.
What is the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)?
500
This doctrine, announced in January 1957, said the United States would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism and was used to put down a revolt in Lebanon.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
500
Husband and wife who were charged, convicted, and executed specifically for passing secrets about nuclear science to the Soviets.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
500
Eisenhower's secretary of state, this man promoted the policy of brinkmanship.
Who is John Foster Dulles?