Kill a Commie
for Mommy!
Korea
Suez
Cuba
Chairman
Mao
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This President’s
doctrine aimed at
aiding democratic
European countries in
the fight against
communism.
Who was Harry
Truman?
The Senator whose
antagonism towards
communism led to
creation of the House UnAmerican Activities
Committee.
Who was Joseph
McCarthy?
This Soviet leader, in his
speech to the Soviet
Congress, denounced
Stalin, beginning a
process of DeStalinization
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
In 1948, this American
lawyer, author, government
official, and lecturer was
charged with being a Soviet
spy.
Who was Alger Hiss?
In 1955, this country would join
NATO.
What was West Germany?
Leaders of North and
South Korea in 1950
Who were Kim Il-sung
and
Syngman Rhee?
This American
commander would lead
the UN troops in Korea.
Who was General
Douglas MacArthur?
The treaty, although never
bringing peaceful agreement
between the north and south,
would be signed at this city.
Where was Panmunjom?
The British PM who would
talk Truman out of using
atomic weapons in the
Korean War.
Who was Clement Atlee?
Although the USSR was part of the
Security Council of the UN, they
did not boycott the UN decision
to invade Korea. Why not?
They were boycotting the UN due
to the decision to omit China
(under Mao) to the United
Nations.
Egypt’s President, Gamal
Abdel Nassar, would
broker an arms deal with
this Soviet bloc country.
What was Czechoslovakia?
The class of “mandate area”
given to the Middle East
after WWI
What is “A”?
The American Secretary of
State who controlled financing
decisions concerning the Aswan
Dam during the Suez Crisis.
Who was John Foster
Dulles?
CENTO, a treaty
organization aimed at
containing communism
within the Middle East, was
also known as…
What was the “Baghdad Pact”?
Identify which
countries/organizations are
depicted in the political cartoon
and identify the history.
USSR
Hungary
U.N.
U.K.
Egypt
France
Israel
Little world attention was paid to Hungary in 1956 as
the country attempted to break free from Soviet domination
Instead, the major powers and the UN were focused on the Suez Crisis
The Cuban dictator who was
ousted during the Cuban
revolution (led by Fidel
Castro).
Who was
Fulgencio Batista?
The year in which the
CIA launched the
unsuccessful Bay of Pigs
invasion.
What was 1961?
The Bay of Pigs invasion
was launched from this
central American
country.
What is Guatemala?
Interpret the political
cartoon.
In the speech Castro is giving to the
crowd, he uses Spanish when referring
to Cuban independence.
When denouncing America, he slips to
Russian with the word “nyet”,
indicating his communist ties to that
country.
A reference to the ‘domino theory’
that Cuba has become a satellite of the
USSR.
He said “We have been eyeball
to eyeball and the other fella
just blinked”?
Who was Secretary of State
Dean Rusk?
The first President of an
independent Republic of
China
Who was Sun
Yat-sen?
The military branch that
fought and won the Boxer
Rebellion.
Who were the
Kuomintang”?
The year in which Mao
would establish the
“People’s Republic of
China”
What was 1949?
Chiang Kai-shek would
retreat to Taiwan during
the Civil War. Taiwan,
under earlier Japanese
rule, had been known by
which name?
What was “Formosa”?
3 key reasons for the
Sino-Soviet split.
What was:
1. lack of Soviet aid in the Korean war
2. slow withdrawal of Soviet ownership of
key Chinese industries
3. Khrushchev’s insistence that the USSR
and USA were the only two superpowers
4. China starts to develop a nuclear
weapon program
5. USSR gave Mao limited aid during Civil War
6. USSR didn’t approve of Mao’s “Great Leap
Forward”
Nukes
In chronological order (you don’t have to
give the year), list the 9 countries in
the world that have launched
successful (?) nuclear weapons tests.
What are:
• USA (1945)
• USSR (1949)
• U.K. (1952)
• France (1960)
• China (1964)
• India (1974)
• Israel (1979)
• Pakistan (1998)
• North Korea (2006)