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Maritime History Unit 10a Extra Credit

Short Answer
 

 1. 

What happened to the U.S. armed forces after World War II ended?
 

 2. 

What were the only two possible American response options to Soviet takeovers of Eastern European nations following World War II?
 

 3. 

What events caused the beginning of the U.S. Sixth Fleet deployments to the Mediterranean?
 

 4. 

What two Soviet actions in the late 1940s caused the Western democracies to create a formal alliance to counter the spread of Soviet communism?
 

 5. 

Where did the Potsdam Conference draw the boundary line between North and South Korea?
 

 6. 

Why was General MacArthur relieved by President Truman?
 

 7. 

What term was originated in 1946 by Sir Winston Churchill to describe the conflict of interests between the West and the Soviet Union?
 

 8. 

What was President Truman's plan for the economic reconstruction of war-torn Europe called?
 

 9. 

What happened in China in 1949?
 

 10. 

What made the landing at Inchon so risky?
 



 
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