Cold War and the Korean War

Question 1

This President was in office when the Korean War started

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Harry S. Truman

Question 2

Commanded U.S. forces at start of the Korean War but was prosecuted for going against President

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Douglas MacArthur

Question 3

Sputnik was launched in

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1957

Question 4

This President was elected to office on the promise of ending the Korean War

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 5

To help the counterattack in the Korean War, the UN pushed an amphibious landing at this place

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Inchon

Question 6

She was convicted of espionage in 1953 with her husband and was executed via electric chair

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Ethel Rosenberg

Question 7

POW exchange late Aprl-May 1953-UN troops returned 1,030 Chinese 5,194 N. Koreans 446 civilians

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Operation Little Switch

Question 8

He was an American diplomat to Moscow who stressed the need for containment

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George Kennan

Question 9

Speech in Congress in March 1947 stated that U.S. support free people for their own destinies

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The Truman Doctrine

Question 10

This economic program helped to keep communism from spreading to Western European countries

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The Marshall Plan

Question 11

The Korean War took place from

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1950-1953

Question 12

The plans for Germany's division and other post-war plans took place here

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Yalta

Question 13

The Korean War ended with the designation of this line for peace

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The 38th Parallel

Question 14

This country was created as a result of World War II

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Israel

Question 15

This was formed as the Soviet response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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The Warsaw Pact

Question 16

He was the Communist leader whose forces overtook China in the late 1940s

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Mao Zedong

Question 17

Since their dictator was Tito, they were able to remain out of the U.S.S.R. for some time

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Yugoslavia

Questions 17