The end of the war in Japan was celebrated as this day.
What is V-J Day?
100
Winston Churchill used this phrase in an address to Westminster College in Missouri to describe the Soviet Union's control of Eastern Europe.
What is The Iron Curtain?
100
This man was the winner of the Election of 1948.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
This senator from Wisconsin became synonymous with the investigations looking for hidden Communists in the American government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
This charismatic general, known for his success in the Pacific Theater in WW2, was the first general for the U.S. troops in Korea.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
The two cities that were hit by atomic bombs were these.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
These countries made up the five original permanent Security Council members of the United Nations.
What are the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union (Russia), and (Nationalist) China?
200
In response to the inclusion of Civil Rights policies in the Democratic platform, Strom Thurmond and other Southern Democrats formed their own political party, the States' Rights Party, more commonly known as this...
Who are the "Dixiecrats"?
200
This group included Richard Nixon, who made a name for himself investigating Alger Hiss for potentially being a Soviet spy.
What is the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC)?
200
The Korean Peninsula had been occupied from 1910-1945 by this country, until the peninsula's liberation by American and Soviet forces.
What is Japan?
300
The city where the war trials of high ranking German officials took place.
What is Nuremberg?
300
This State Department leader is famous for writing a "Long Telegram" that established the American policy of containment against the Soviet Union.
Who is George Kennan?
300
This was the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1948 - an erroneous Chicago Tribune headline infamously declared him the winner.
Who is George Dewey?
300
The fear that homosexuals could be more easily blackmailed because homosexuality was illegal at the time led to an investigation of homosexuals in the government known as this.
What is the "Lavender Scare"?
300
This line of latitude generally marked the split between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
400
Americans celebrated the end of the war with a touring exhibition of their cultural documents, known as this.
What is The Freedom Train?
400
Described as a "New Deal for Europe," by 1950, this foreign policy had helped bring Western Europe's economies back to pre-war levels.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This law, passed over Truman's veto, outlawed the "closed shop" and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
400
His play on the Salem Witch Trials, The Crucible, was seen as an allegory for the Communist witch hunt happening at the time of its publication.
Who is Arthur Miller?
400
South Korean forces were driven back into this geographic area in the southeast corner of the Korean Peninsula, before an amphibious assault by the Americans relieved the pressure.
What is the Pusan Perimeter?
500
Who were the "Big Three" leaders at the Potsdam Conference?
Who are Truman, Atlee, and Stalin?
500
A Communist coup in this country was the primary inspiration behind the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
What is Czechoslovakia?
500
Truman railed against the Republican-controlled 80th U.S. Congress, referring to them as this.
What is the "Do-Nothing Congress?"
500
This couple was executed on (now disputed) evidence of having passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
500
American forces drove the North Koreans all the way to this river that separated Korea from China - at least until the Chinese entered the war.