Truman
What was Truman's position in government before he became the 33rd President?
Vice President
What was Eisenhower's rank in the Army during World War II?
General (Supreme Allied Commander)
What federal agency was established in 1947 with the objective to conduct espionage in foreign countries?
The Central Intelligence Agency
What major Supreme Court case ruled in 1954 declared segregation in schools unconstitutional?
Bonus: According to the Supreme Court, what amendment made segregation unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
Bonus: violation of the 14th Amendment
Who was the General Secretary of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953?
Joseph Stalin
Where were the two locations that Truman approved for the dropping of the atomic bombs?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What military operation did Eisenhower spearhead in 1944?
D-Day
What nation was divided in half, communist and capitalist, by the 1954 Geneva Accords?
Vietnam
Which President was the first to enforce a civil rights measure with an executive order?
Harry Truman
Which war, actively fought between 1950-1953, was the United States involved in?
The Korean War
In 1922, what position began Truman's political career?
County Judge
In 1956, Eisenhower championed what system to bolster infrastructure across the United States?
What plan gave economic aid to western Europe to help in relief efforts began in 1948?
The Marshall Plan
What city did Eisenhower send 101st Airborne troops and the National Guard to, in an attempt to integrate a school?
Little Rock, Arkansas
What foreign policy declaration was created with in intention to contain communism in 1947?
The Truman Doctrine
What was the name of Truman's Cocker Spaniel?
Feller
What animal did Eisenhower ban from White House grounds?
Squirrels
What collective defense agreement was created in 1949 in conjunction with other European nations?
NATO
In 1948, Truman's executive order 9981 did what for the U.S. military?
Integrated the military
What organization was created in response to NATO in 1955?
The Warsaw Pact
What cause drove Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola to attempt an assassination on President Truman in 1950?
They sought Puerto Rican independence
What defense and economic relationship did Eisenhower warn about during his Farewell Address in 1958?
The Military-Industrial Complex
In 1953, Operation Ajax, conducted by the CIA, had the goal of what?
Overthrowing the Iranian government
What body was created by Eisenhower to oversee nondiscrimination policies in the allocation of federal contracts?
Committee on Government Contracts
Double Points: Each team has 45 seconds to name as many communist nations by 1958
(USSR is not one nation)
Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, East Germany, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Albania, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria