Question | Answer |
What did the Berlin Wall symbolize ? | The iron curtain and the separation of democracy from communism |
How did we stop the U.S.S.R from attacking the U.S.A.? | We threatened to nuke them if they attacked us. |
Who did President Eisenhower give control over foreign policy? | John Foster Dulles |
What did President Truman and MacArthur disagree about? | Over the issue of invading China and using the bomb. |
What did President Truman refuse to recognize? | The Communist government of China. |
Who was charged with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union? | Julius & Ethel Rosenburg |
Why was the 1950's a time of recovery and economic growth? | Millions of veterans came home from the war (GI Bill, and housing boom) |
What did MacArthur wanted to do what? | to liberate China from Communist control by invading China |
The Marshall plan was made for what purpose? | to create strong European Allies, to rebuild and continue trading with Europe, and for the Economic benefit of the USA. |
Which side of the Berlin wall was democratic? | West Berlin |
Which side of the Berlin wall was communist? | East Berlin |
What did President Truman create to investigate un-american activities? | Loyalty Review Boards |
What is McCarthyism? | accusations and bullying tactics used to destroy a persons reputation who was believed to be a communist without evidence |
The space race was between which two countries? | the USA and USSR |
When did the space race begin? | When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik into space. |
What type of political system did the United Sates want to spread? | Democracy |
Low interest housing loans to Veteran created a | housing boom |
What started the Arms Race? | The U.S.S.R developed their own bomb |
Who created the first vaccine for Polio? | Jonas Salk |
In 1953, what did the US and North Korea sign that ended hostilities? | Armistice |
Why was the interstate Highway Act created? | military could travel rapidly from coast to coast in time of emergencies |
What was an unintended consequence of the Interstate Highway Act? | Americans began to travel throughout the US and move to the newly developed suburbs |
What was the dividing line of North and South Korea? | the 38th parallel line |
The U.S. trucked in supplies to West Berlin until the Soviets did what? | Berlin Blockade |
How did the U.S. respond to the Berlin Blockade? | Berlin Airlift |
What was the first major international crises of the Cold War | The Berlin blockade |
What were the economic reasons to rebuild Germany and Italy under the Marshall plan of 1948? | to continue trading with the USA and it benefited the american economy |
The Policy of Containment if the basis of the ______________doctrine. | Truman |
What did the Soviet Union want to see other nations adopt? | Communism |
What did the soviet union implement/prevented when they controlled the satellite nations? | prevented free elections, seized industrial properties, and controlled all lives of the people |
Why was it called the Cold War? | The USSR and USA never confronted each other directly in open warfar |
Who were the Big 3? | Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
Each NATO member pledged to _____________other ___________________nations from attack | defend; NATO |
What happened to the people who were caught trying to escape from east to west Berlin? | they were put in prison or shot |
What was the main purpose of the Berlin Wall? | to keep the East Berliners in |
Although America loudly condemned the soviets they did not directly_____________ | intervene behind the iron curtain |
The U.S didn't interfere when the soviets | built the Berlin Wall
suppressed anti-communist revolution in hungry
invaded Czechoslovakia |
Who did Truman promise to support? | Any country fighting against Communism |
What was Joesph Stalin suppose to create? | a classless society |
Which two allies became rivals during the Cold War? | USA and Soviet Union (USSR) |
What type of Nations did Stalin control? | Satellite Nations |
What political structure did Stalin set up in the Satellite Nations? | communist government |
America responded to the Soviet Union's Communist domination of Eastern Europe with what? | Containment |
What is containment? | Stopping the spread of communism to free democratic nations, but not fighting it in nations that were already communist |
The ______________Doctrine promised to support any country fighting communism. | Truman |
Who was the first country to create and use the Atomic bomb? | USA |
The House Un-American Activities (Huac) was created by congress to identify | current or former members of the Communist party |
What was the Sputnik? | the worlds first artificial satellite |
American believed the policy of containment was working and stopping the spread of | Communism in Europe |
What Senator is accountable for the _____________hearings? | Senator Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy hearings |
Where did the big 3 meet for a conference? | Yalta and Potsdam |
Why was the secret of the atomic bomb important? | it kept the US the sole atomic power in the world |
Which war was the first to use an international peace keeping force to halt an aggression (United Nations)? | Korean War |
What did General Dougles MacArthur do for a living? | he commanded U.S. forces |
What policy stopped the spread of communism in Europe? | policy of containment |
What was the result of the Korean War? | The result of the war remained the same as before it began |
Who was HUAC created by and what was the purpose? | created by congress
identify current and former members of Communist party |
Which act created a system of federal highways | Interstate Highway Act |
What did Senator Joseph McCarthy lead? | He led the hunt for communist in America |
The Eisenhower ________________would send troops to any Middle Eastern nation asking for help in fighting communism | Doctrine |
Under a ___________policy President Eisenhower created the GI Bill | Domestic |