APUSH Ch26 Cold War Begins

Why did Truman fire General Douglas MacArthur?

Policy officially known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act; it provided housing, education & job-training subsidies

What was the nickname for the Soviet controlled "buffer states" in eastern Europe?

Pro-Western though not-reliably-democratic leader of South Korea in 1950

John Foster Dulles criticized Truman's containment policy & instead offered a more aggressive stance that was called-

Among the major causes of the Cold War were arguments between US & USSR were over reparations &

Anticommunist crusade of a senator in the early 1950s, during which alleged communists were persecuted without evidence

Ultra-conservative org. led by Robert Welch, who was convinced communism had infiltrated all levels of US government

An eleven-month-long supply mission; British & American planes flew over 4000 tons of supplies daily into West Berlin

Congressional committee that held a widely publicized investigation into communist subversion within the US government

FDR, Churchill, & Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by US, USSR, UK, &

This declared the right of all people to choose the form of gov't under which they would live

1950 report which called for major expansion of American military power to combat the threat of communism & the USSR

A US-dominated alliance formed for the purpose of collective defense against Soviet aggression

Leader who defeated Chiang Kai-shek & declared China a communist nation in 1949

By 1945, what did FDR think was the key to keeping the world at peace?

The ___ Plan was the US foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western Europe after WWII

Which German city was divided into four zones so that the Allies could share control of it?

The dividing line between North & South Korea

This act made it illegal to operate a business in which no worker could be hired without first being a member of a union

This is another word for constitution

Post-1947 US intelligence operation tasked with collection of intel related to national security from around the world

17-day Korean War battle in freezing weather- US Marines smashed through 7 Chinese divisions in their escape from:

This word refers to the US policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders

A Soviet resort on the Black Sea where FDR, Churchill & Stalin met to plan postwar policy

A high-ranking member of the State Department accused in 1948 of passing classified documents to a communist agent

Truman's 21-point domestic program supporting expansion of Social Security, increased minimum wage, & public housing

This American diplomat's observations about the USSR helped formulate the US policy of containment

NY couple accused, convicted & executed for passing secret information regarding America's atomic bomb to the Soviets

____ nations are politically & economically dominated by another, more powerful, country

US pilots engaged Soviet, N. Korean, and Chinese jet pilots near the Chinese border of Korea in a place called-

This was an era of confrontation and competition between the US and the USSR

This organization was formed at the end of WWII to promote international peace & security

USSR's position in Eastern Europe ensured that ___ would be established in countries like Poland

General Douglas MacArthur conducted a decisive amphibious landing of UN troops behind enemy lines at:

The ___ ___ stated that the US would help any nation trying to fight communism

This was a location near Berlin where Truman & Stalin met to work out a deal on Germany

This American general led UN forces in the Korean War until relieved by Truman for making insubordinate statements

A USSR-dominated alliance formed for the purpose of collective defense under a joint military command

Why was Churchill unable to complete negotiations at the Potsdam Conference with Truman & Stalin?