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VIIB: Early Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He proposed containment as a foreign policy | George Kennan |
| He proposed liberation as a foreign policy | John Dulles |
| President as the end of WW2 and at the start of the Cold War | Harry Truman |
| President during most of the 1950s | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| General who commanded the U.N. forces in the Korean War | Douglass MacArthur |
| Senator who led a communist "witch hunt" | Joseph McCarthy |
| He pioneered the mass building of homes in the suburbs | William Levitt |
| Beatnik. Wrote "On the Road" | Jack Kerouac |
| Critical of conformity. "Wrote Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" | Sloan Wilson |
| Leader of the communist revolution in China | Mao Zedong |
| Leader of the Nationalist government in China | Chiang Kai-Shek |
| Leader of the Communist revolution in Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death | Nikita Khrushchev |
| He coined the term "iron curtain" | Winston Churchill |
| He created the Polio Vaccine | Dr. Jonas Salk |
| Overall U.S. foreign policy following WW2 | Containment |
| Plan to give aid to Greece and Turkey to resist communism | Truman Doctrine |
| Plan to give aid to Middle Eastern nations resisting communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Gave $13 billion in aid to help western European nations recover | Marshall Plan |
| Term described the division in Europe between democratic and communist nations | Iron Curtain |
| Pres. Truman's domestic program was called this | Fair Deal *changed from:Dynamic Conservation, which was Eisenhower's doctrine* |
| What the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigated | Suspected Communists |
| U.S. led example of collective security | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| Legislation that weakened unions | Taft-Hartley Act |
| Legislation that assisted soldiers returning home after WW2 | Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (G.I.Bill) |
| Those born between 1946 and 1964 are referred to as the: | Baby Boom |
| Term for attempts at lessening tensions with the U.S.S.R. | Détente |
| President Eisenhower's warning of the ____, that private industry might exert influence over government to acquire defense contracts | Military-Industrial Complex |
| Eisenhower's emphasis on technology and nuclear forces for defense called: | New Look |
| The winner of the 1948 presidential election | Harry Truman |
| Incident that spoiled détente during Eisenhower administration | U-2 Incident |
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