Question | Answer |
This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II. | Cold War |
Immediately after World War II, many of the countries of Eastern Europe were occupied by ________ troops. | Soviet |
Who signed a nonagression pact with Hitler in 1939 that made the U.S. later distrust him and his country? | Joseph Stalin |
Truman arranged for $600 million in aid be sent to postwar __________ and _____________ to stabilize those governments and prevent them from being communist. | Greece and Turkey |
The _______________ nations consisted entirely of eastern European nations and was dependent on and dominated by the Soviet Union. | satellite (also Warsaw Pact) |
The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to stop the spread of ____________. | communism |
How did the Soviets respond to the efforts by the West to reunify Germany? | Berlin blockade |
$13.5 billion dollars in economic aid was provided to many foreign nations as part of the _____ . | Marshall Plan |
The defensive alliance known as _____ was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Aid to the Chinese Nationalists in the Chinese civil war was provided by which country? | United States |
Aid to the Chinese Communists in the Chinese civil war was provided by which country? | Soviet Union |
The Nationalists were defeated in the civil war in China largely because of the weak and corrupt leadership of _______________. | Chiang Kai-Shek |
The leader of the Nationalists was forced to flee to the island of ______ after his army was defeated. | Taiwan |
The leader of the Chinese Communists was ______ who set up the People’s Republic of China on the mainland. | Mao Zedong |
Which country sent troops into Korea when fighting neared its border? | China |
President Truman disagreed with General MacArthur about MacArthur’s plans to blockade and bomb _____. | China |
President Truman fired General ________ in response to his public criticism of Truman. | MacArthur |
The ______ became an important dividing line between North and South Korea. | 38th parallel |
The committee known as ________ became well known for investigating communism in the film industry. | HUAC |
Accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military were made by Senator _______ . | Joseph McCarthy |
The _____ decided not to cooperate with the investigation into whether the American film industry had been influenced by Communists and were sent to prison. | Hollywood Ten |
What famous government official was convicted of perjury after being accused of spying for the Soviet Union. | Alger Hiss |
In pronouncing sentence on ______ , Judge Irving Kaufman declared the crime “worse than murder” because it had put “into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb.” | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the United States responded by building a _____________ bomb. | hydrogen |
The policy of ______ threatened retaliation against acts of aggression against the United States. | brinkmanship |
As Secretary of State, ______ proposed that the United States declare its intention to use massive retaliation against any aggression. | John Foster Dulles |
The _______ was created by Truman to investigate persons who may have possible ties or sympathies toward communism. | Loyalty Review Board |
This law made it illegal to plot to establish a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States. | McCarran Internal Security Act |
What group’s covert actions helped to topple governments in Iran and Guatemala? | CIA |
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention in this area of the world. | Middle East |
This U-2 pilot was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage and later returned to the United States in exchange for a Soviet spy. | Francis Gary Powers |
This was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. | Sputnik I |
Nikita Khrushchev became the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin and was the one who ordered tanks in 1956 into ______to crush the government
there. | Hungary |
The _____________ Pact was the official name of the military alliance that consisted of the Eastern European satellite nations dominated by the Soviet Union. | Warsaw |