Korean War, Red Scare, McCarthyism

What was the goal of McCarthyism

• Limiting governmental regulations

• Rescinding democratic freedoms of citizens

• Destroying careers of politicians

• Exposing suspected communists

What was the primary goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To contain the spread of communism

• To initiate proxy wars around the world

• To provide military support to all nations

• To spread communism globally

Who led the Communist faction in China?

• Kim Il Sung

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Mao Zedong

• Syngman Rhee

Who headed McCarthyism, the witch-hunt to root out suspected communists in America?

• President Truman

• Senator Joseph McCarthy

• Richard Nixon

• Hugh Act

What was the outcome of the Chinese Civil War?

• Foreign powers intervened and established a new government

• The war ended in a stalemate with no clear victor

• The Communists won and Mao Zedong took control of China

• The Nationalists won and controlled all of China

What is a lasting result of the Korean War mentioned in the text?

• North Korea became a democratic state.

• South Korea adopted communism.

• North Korea remains a communist threat.

• The Korean peninsula was unified.

_______ _______ became Soviet Premier (President) after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph McCarthy

• Nikita Khruschev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

What organization was created to contain communism in Southeast Asia?

• NATO

• The United Nations

• SEATO

• The Warsaw Pact

At the end of WWII, to which two countries did Japanese troops in Korea surrender?

• Soviet Union and China

• America and China

• Soviet Union and America

• America and Britain

Ethel and Julius _______ were found to have given nuclear secrets to the Soviets and were eventually executed.

• Albright

• McCarthy

• Rosenberg

• Hiss