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UShist 9.2
Quiz practice
Term | Definition |
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Julius Rosenberg | Found guilty of spying for the Soviet Union and sent to the electric chair in 1953. |
Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin that led communist "witch hunts" in the government and military. |
Mao Zedong | Communist leader of the People's Republic of China |
Fidel Castro | became dictator of Cuba after the 1959 revolution. |
Douglas MacArthur | General of U.S. troops in Korea; forced to resign when he wanted to expand the war into China. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Hero of WWII, became president in the 50's. |
Nikita Krushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died. |
Brinkmanship | Ike's policy of threatening to go to war to combat the spread of communism. |
McCarthyism | Destroying reputations by making accusations without evidence. |
Space Race | Competition between the two world superpowers to develop satellites and rockets. |
U-2 incident | Ruined efforts to ease Cold War tensions |
38th parallel | The result of the Korean War was Korea remained split at the: |
Fear of drawing the Soviet Union into war | Reason Truman did not want to bomb China during the Korean War. |
Soviet Union exploded an atom bomb. | What factor intensified the American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb? |