This was a European recovery plan proposed to combat postwar poverty and unrest.
What was the Marshall Plan?
100
This was the year in which the new state of Israel was established as an independent state to provide a haven for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.
What is 1948?
100
An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, this statement pledged American help for any free nation threatened by Communist takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
This was a conflict of ideologies between Americanism and Communism.
What was the Cold War?
200
This President decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
200
This American general became the military governor of Japan after the war.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
200
This country divided into a Communist government in the north, and a free republic in the south, shortly after WWII.
What is Korea?
200
This was organized after WWII to promote peace among all the nations of the world.
What is the United Nations?
200
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the Communist nations of Eastern Europe after WWII.
What is the iron curtain?
300
This happened on June 6, 1944.
What is the largest amphibious assault in history (D-Day) at Normandy, France?
300
This was how the United States was able to get food and supplies into West Berlin.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
300
At Yalta, Roosevelt allowed Stalin to control these two former Chinese satellite territories.
What are Manchuria and Mongolia?
300
This alliance was established between the Western European nations, Canada and the United States in order to defend against Communist aggression.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
As one of President Roosevelt's closest advisers at Yalta, he persuaded the President to make concessions to Stalin after the war.
Who was Alger Hiss?
400
May 8, 1945
What is V-E Day?
400
This was Truman's expansion of FDR's New Deal.
What was the Fair Deal?
400
This city, firmly entrenched behind the iron curtain, was split into Soviet occupied "East" and Allied occupied "West" after the war.
What is Berlin?
400
This organization was formed to defend Southeast Asian countries from Communism.
What is the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)?
400
This policy was Truman's excuse for refusing to give MacArthur permission to invade China and wipe out Communism during the Korean War.
What is containment?
500
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Next to MacArthur, this man and his wife were the best known Americans living in Japan because of their dedication to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Who was Jacob DeShazer?
500
Rather than attempt to set Communist countries free, the policy of containment sought to simply keep Communism from doing this.