- The first President to visit China, also instituted a policy of Vietnamization, meaning that the U.S. would train the Vietnamese and leave them to fight.
- General in the Pacific during World War II, architect of the island-hopping campaign
- T or FTroops from South Korea first crossed the 38th parallel and began the Korean War.
- T or FIn general, McCarthyism is the unfair tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without providing evidence.
- General Douglass MacArthur commanded U.S. forces in ___________.
- Which Warsaw Pact country did not benefit from sharing a border with other Warsaw Pact countries?
- What geographical fact explains why an airlift was necessary to over come the Soviet blockade of West Berlin?
- What is the westernmost country shown on this map that was allied with the United States during the Cold War?
- The ______ appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict.
- T or FSatellite nations of the Soviet Union joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact.
- T or FAfter Stalin's death, several leaders shared power in the Soviet Union until Nikita Khrushchev claimed leadership for himself.
- T or FPresident Truman fired General MacArthur because of MacArthur's insistence that the US should blockade and bomb North Korea
- T or FChina's Communist leader Mao Zedong won over Chinese peasants to the Communist Party with his promises of land reform.
- T or FThe U-2 incident involved the use of airplanes to bring food and supplies to the people of West Berlin.
- T or FBillions of dollars in economic aid was provided to many foreign nations as part of the Truman Doctrine.
- T or FThe policy of brinkmanship threatend retaliation to the edge of all-out war.
- T or FFrancis Gary Powers was convicted of perjury after being accused of spying for the Soviet Union.
- Which of the following statistics dropped during the postwar era?
- Which phrase best describes postwar society in America?
- the first country in the western hemisphere to fall to communism was