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Question 1

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

Answer 1

Policy in which the U.S. and S. Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy each other.

Question 2

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Answer 2

A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.

Question 3

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Answer 3

Government agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space.

Question 4

Domino Theory

Answer 4

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under communist control.

Question 5

Sputnik

Answer 5

The world’s first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.

Question 6

U-2 Incident (1960)

Answer 6

U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union forcing the Eisenhower administration to acknowledge responsibility for the spy mission after lying about it at first.

Question 7

Red Scare

Answer 7

Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life after World War Two.

Question 8

Hollywood Ten

Answer 8

Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding communist influence in Hollywood.

Question 9

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 9

They were convicted in 1951 of giving atomic bomb data to the Soviet Union. They were later executed.

Question 10

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 10

A Wisconsin senator who claimed to have list of communists in American gov’t, but had no credible evidence. He took advantage of fears of communism in post-WWII America to become incredibly influential. “McCarthyism” was the fearful accusation of being communist during the early 1950’s.

Question 11

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Answer 11

A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.