Conflict in Asia

Question 1

Truman Doctrine

Answer 1

The USA would aid any country at threat of a communist takeover

Question 2

Containment

Answer 2

Preventing the spread of communism from country to country

Question 3

NATO

Answer 3

Military alliance containing USA, Britain, France, Belgium, Canada, and other European nations

Question 4

Warsaw Pact

Answer 4

Military Alliance containing USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania

Question 5

Cold War

Answer 5

A series of small Proxy Wars supported by the Capitalist west and Communist east to spread their ideologies

Question 6

North Korea

Answer 6

Kim Il-sung
Communist
People’s Republic of North Korea
Pyongyang

Question 7

South Korea

Answer 7

Syngman Rhee
Capitalist
Republic of Korea
Seoul

Question 8

United Nations Security Council Incident

Answer 8

Communist takeover in China meant they needed to be allowed to rejoin the council
America vetoed the decision
USSR stormed out of the meeting to boycott the council

Question 9

Why did North Korea invade?

Answer 9

Believed South Koreans would welcome an invasion
Stalin believed the USSR was stronger than America
America had left Korea
Communists had won in China

Question 10

Soviet response to American intervention in Korea

Answer 10

Openly criticised the UN
Said that American wanted to make Korea an American Colony