Post War

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Post War Europe
Asian Threats
Korea
McCarthyism
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2
Explain the Truman Doctrine

• 100

3
that the US would attempt to contain Communism
and aid countries against armed minorities and
outside pressure

• 100

4
When French, British US controlled West Germany
was unified, the USSR responded with blockading
West Berlin.How did the US respond?

• 200

5
Berlin Airlift

• 200

6
Why was communism largely developed in many
Eastern European countries after WWII?

• 300

7
Soviets occupied Eastern Europe after WWII and
wanted a buffer zone/set up their own puppet
communist governments

• 300

8
This economic reform plan called for massive
spending in Western Europe, and the reasons why

• 400

9
Marshall Plan New markets, strong/stable
democracies that can oppose Communist threat

• 400

10
Truman authorized the building of the H-bomb
largely in response to

• 500

11
The Soviet exploding of an A-bomb

• 500

12
This man won the popular support of the Chinese
people, but failed to gain the support of the US

• 100

13
Mao Zedong

• 100

14
Although supported by the US, this mans
government was corrupt and weak

• 200

15
Chiang Kai-Shek

• 200

16
The Nationalists fled here, and was recognized as
the true Chinese government by the US and UN for
several years

• 300

17
Taiwan (Formosa)

• 300

18
Why was the Soviet Union unable to use its veto
power on the UN security council to prevent
military action against its ally North Korea?

• 400

19
At the time, the USSR was boycotting the UN for
not recognizing Mao Zedong as the true leader of
China

• 400

20
In the Chinese Civil War, which leader controlled
which part of the country

• 500

21
Mao Zedong in the NorthChiang Kai-Shek in the
South

• 500

22
What was the line that divided the the Korean
Nations?

• 100

23
38th parallel (Japanese forces in Korea
surrender to US and USSR forces)

• 100

24
List the forces fighting in Korea (both sides)

• 200

25
South Korea and UN (led by the US) v. North Korea
and Communist China

• 200

26
This man argued for an extension of the Korean
War into China, and this man fired him for
criticizing his authority

• 300

27
MacArthur and Truman

• 300

28
This city changed hands at least four times
during the war, but survived to become South
Koreas capital

• 400

29
Seoul

• 400

30
The N. Korean troops pushed the S. Korean troops
all the way to ____________, before the UN
intervened with a landing at _____________ and
pushed the Communist forces all the way to
_______________________

• 500

31
Pusan, Inchon, Yalu River

• 500

32
The Senator who claimed he possessed lists of
known Communists in the State Department was

• 100

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Joe McCarthy

• 100

34
Explain McCarthyism

• 200

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Communist witch hunt in America where people were
accused without proof and asked to give up other
communists to save themselves

• 200

36
This committee pressured the film industry to
blacklist many popular, but uncooperative
actors/directors, accusing them of being
communists

• 300

37
HUAC

• 300

38
This African American actor, athlete and activist
lost his career over Communist sympathies

• 400

39
Paul Robeson

• 400

40
This was a group of actors/directors who refused
to cooperate with the HUAC

• 500

41
The Hollywood 10

• 500

42
The Middle East became a region of concern, and
under the protection of US foreign policy under
this president

• 100

43
Eisenhower

• 100

44
Name two high profile cases resulting from the
internal witch hunts

• 200

45
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Alger Hiss

• 200

46
This policy was adopted by Dulles and hinged on
MAD (Mutually assured Destruction)

• 300

47
Brinksmanship

• 300

48
2.This was established to protect the US and
European allies from Soviet attacks. 1.This was
the Soviet response to the rearmament of West
Germany

• 400

49
NATO Warsaw Pact

• 400

50
This soviet leader authorized Soviet action in
Hungary in 1956

• 500

51
Nikita Khruschev

• 500