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The reason for the different

conferences that took place in the

last year of the war between the big

three.

What is establish the

post war world?

Created to prevent future wars and this time the US was an

active member.

What is the United Nations?

The Big Three.

Who are Churchill, Stalin,

and FDR/ Truman?

This weapon was used to end the war and later will cause and prevent wars between the US

and USSR.

What is the Atomic Bomb?

The Germans moved all of their troops to the Eastern front in the

closing weeks of WWII to stop what country from reaching Berlin due to

their understanding of what this country would do to their people.

What is the Soviet Union?

This line or Latitude separated North and South Korea both prior to and

following the war.

What is the 38th Parallel?

The people of this part of Korea will be

supported by the Soviets and Chinese

and as such will adopt their form of government.

What is North Korea?

The followers of Chiang Kai-chek the nationalist leader of

China fled to what modern day country to avoid capture

by the Red Chinese.

What is Taiwan?

The leader of North Korea During the

Korean war his son is the leader today.

Who is Kim Il- Sung?

This country actively supported North Korea and

even went so far as to send in combat troops by

the hundreds of thousands.

Who is China?

This man and wife were put to death treason.

Who are Julius and Ethel

Rosenberg?

Algier Hiss was put on trial for these papers that he had hidden in a gourd.

What are the Pumpkin Papers?

The term for a document that would ensure that you would no longer work as a result of

accused communist sympathies.

What is a Black List?

This industry was especially hard hit during the red scare possibly out

of anti-Semitism or the fact that they were

outspoken opponents of it.

What is Hollywood?

This is what the congressional committee to hunt down communist

was officially called.

What is House Committee on Un-American

Activities?

Reasons why the Soviets did not like the Marshal

Plan and other economic aid to the war torn

countries of the world.

What are strong nations on their border posed a threat to them, it was harder for communism to take hold, and it would have likely allied the US

with them?

We will help any people who want to be free.

What is to the Truman

Doctrine?

The reason that we would not help Hungary but we did South Korea.

What is to combat

communism but to avoid direct war with the

Soviets?

The US and allied response to the growing

communist threat.

What is the North Atlantic

Treaty Organization or

NATO?

The Soviet Unions response the US forming

an Organization for mutual Defense.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

“Old soldiers don’t die, they just fade away”

Who General Douglas MacArthur in his resignation

speech before congress?

“the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now,

that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep it”

Who is Vice President Richard Nixon?

Who is Checkers the only “illegal” campaign contribution that Nixon admitted to taking?

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower, the president

who got us “out” of the Korean War.

Who is Kim Jong-Il the current Chairmen of the National

Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army,

and General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea? These are all posts that he has

had since his father died in 1994.

This country was created in the 1940’s

to establish a homeland for the displaced Jewish

population of Europe.

What is Israel?

The establishment of this country as a communist one

and its placement as a “satellite nation” is one of the chief reasons for the

rise in tensions between the US and USSR.

What is Poland?

This country was saved from an invasion by its northern neighbor as a result of the

United Nations sending forces to its defense.

Who is South Korean?

This country was split in half and the US almost went to war with

the Soviet Union to lift a blockade of a beleaguered portion of its

capital city.

What is Germany?

This country staged an uprising against their Soviet invaders and begged for US help which never came.

What is Hungary?

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The first real suburb in the US, a study in

efficiency.

What is Levittown?

The problem that some of the husbands had when they came home from work and

why.

What is could not find their homes because

every house was completely identical?

The 22nd Amendment.

What is the President may only serve two terms?

The maximum number of years that a President

can serve.

What is ten years?

Many veterans of WWII now had money and low interest

loans that allowed them to go to college and buy houses, this increased the overall

educational level and quality of life in the US.

What is the Montgomery GI

Bill?

The US promises to escalate any conflict

that is started, hopefully a bluff to

keep the peace.

What is Massive Retaliation?

Basically a gigantic game of chicken between the US and the Soviet Union that

virtually guaranteed mutual destruction if no

one backed down.

What is Brinkmanship?

The theory that if one countries falls to

communism they all will.

What is the Domino Theory?

The US plan to contain communism to try to kill it like a

virus.

What is containment?

The term for achieving control over your opponent from a neutral position to the

mat. ;)

What is a takedown?

The port city where the US and forces of other nations

dug in and waited for reinforcements after being completely overrun in the

opening months of the Korean War.

What is Pusan?

This city was the location where the US staged an amphibious invasion

which then pushed the North Koreans into a two front war and

allowed the allies to advance.

What is Incheon?

The reason that the Chinese entered the

war.

What is the fear that the US and the UN

forces would not stop with defeating North

Korea?

The proper term for the Korean War.

What is a UN Police Action?

When you wage a war to achieve

limited objectives, one of the reasons why soldiers and

civilians alike in the US did like or

understand the war.

What is Limited War?

The opposite of the previous term in which you do

what ever it takes to win, this is what

we did in WWII.

Who is Total War?

1000 times.

What is the increase in explosive power from the A bomb to

the Hydrogen Bomb?

Insubordination.

What is the reason that

MacArthur got fired?

One of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the war in which the US took heavy

casualties and lost a lot of ground again.

What is Chosin Reservoir?

The President who ended the war for

the US.

Who is President Eisenhower?

The major civil rights legislation passed by

Truman when he took office.

What is he integrated the US military?

The man behind the Red Scare.

Who is Senator Joseph

MacCarthy?

The actions of the CIA were known as such because they were hidden from public view, the

basis of US involvement in South America.

What is Covert Action?

The Military Industrial Complex.

What is what President Eisenhower warned us about in his Farewell

Address?

The power that the members of the UN security council

have in regard to UN action.

What is Veto?

The US reaction to the Soviet Blockade of Berlin and how

long it lasted.

What is the Berlin Airlift and about a year?

The term that Winston Churchill coined to describe the spread of communism

in Europe.

What is the Iron Curtain?

The first African American player in major league

baseball.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

The reason that the US and

Soviet Union disagreed on

reconstruction.

What is prevents

communism, future wars,

etc..?

A writer from the show of shows.

Who is Woody Allen, Mel

Brooks, etc..?

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