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Cold and Korean Wars
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Cold War? | A conflict of words and ideas between nations rather than armies. |
| What are Super Powers? | A nation that is one of the world's most powerful. |
| What's containment? | The policy of preventing a country from gaining control of another country. |
| What was the Truman Doctrine? | Said that the United States would give money and supplies to help any nation that wanted to keep the Soviets/Communists out. |
| What's the marshall plan? | Also known as the European Recovery Act, which provided $12 billion dollars to help the European countries rebuild their economies after the war. |
| Who set up the Berlin blockade? | Soviets. |
| What did the Allies do to get around the blockade? | Airlifted supplies to the people in Berlin. |
| What's NATO? | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| What's the Warsaw pact? | A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European nations in 1955. |
| When did the Korean War begin and end? | 1950-1953. |
| What is the Korean War known as? | The "forgotten war". |
| What was North Korea's government during the Korean War? | Communists. |
| What's North Korea's capital? | P'yongyang. |
| Who supported North Korea during the war? | China and the USSR. |
| Who was North Korea's leader? | Kim Il Sung. |
| What was South Korea's government during the Korean War? | Democratic. |
| What's South Korea's capital? | Seoul. |
| Who supported South Korea during the war? | The UN and US. |
| Who was South Korea's leader. | Dr. Syngman Rhee. |
| What's a DMZ? | (demilitarized zone). |
| Who did North Korea try to invade and why? | North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th Parallel - a DMZ (demilitarized zone) and invaded South Korea, trying to make the entire country communist; this was an act of war. |
| Who did U.S. President Harry S. Truman sent US troops to support? | South Korea. |
| What is the Inchon Landing? | A daring, surprise, amphibious landing led by US Gen. MacArthur that turned the tide of the war by landing behind enemy lines. |
| What's limited war? | A war in which total victory is not the goal. Such limitations make it less likely that nuclear weapons are used. |
| What year did both sides signed a truce ending the Korean War? | 1953 |
| What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall? | To stop the escape of the East Germans. |
| Did the US believe in the Domino theory? | Yes. |
| What was the Domino theory? | President Eisenhower’s fear that “all of Southeast Asia will fall like a row of dominos” if the US did not stop the spread of communism. |
| Who was the Arms race and space race between? | US and USSR. |
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