The impact on US government policy

Question 1

How did Truman respond to the China Lobby?

Answer 1

Changed policy, announcing a series of measures designed to stop the spread of communism in South-East Asia

Question 2

How did the US provide military support for Taiwan?

Answer 2

The US dispatched its Seventh Fleet to the Taiwan Strait to discourage a Chinese invasion

Question 3

How did the US provide military aid for the Philippines?

Answer 3

In mid-1950, John F. Melby head of the US Military Aid Mission, agreed support for the Philippine government against communist revolutionaries

Question 4

What did USA provide France with?

Answer 4

Military and financial support, who were battling communism in Vietnam

Question 5

Why did the US give aid and support for South Korea?

Answer 5

North Korea was a communist country and the US government feared that it was planning to invade capitalist South Korea

Question 6

What did the Loss of China show to the US government?

Answer 6

They had not done enough to retain the initiative in the CW

Question 7

What did NSC-68 outline?

Answer 7

A more active role for the USA in fighting communism in the Cold War