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