cold war

Question 1

yalta conference

Answer 1

a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 2

iron curtain

Answer 2

communism influence over eastern europe

Question 3

cold war

Answer 3

war between us and ussr that never came to blows

Question 4

truman

Answer 4

president after fdr

Question 5

potsdam

Answer 5

end of ww2 negotiated here

Question 6

satellite nations

Answer 6

. These were nations that were aligned with (but also under the influence and pressure of) the Soviet Union

Question 7

containment

Answer 7

policy of containing communism

Question 8

truman doctrine

Answer 8

Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War

Question 9

marshall plan

Answer 9

an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion

Question 10

berlin airlift

Answer 10

soviets blockaded berlin and allies had to drop supplies (food etc) by air

Question 11

nato

Answer 11

intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party

Question 12

warsaw pact

Answer 12

was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

Question 13

mae zedong

Answer 13

principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nation’s Cultural Revolution

Question 14

limited war

Answer 14

a war in which the weapons used, the nations or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way, in particular one in which the use of nuclear weapons is avoided.

Question 15

huac

Answer 15

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 in order to uncover citizens with Nazi ties inside the United States.

Question 16

mccarren act

Answer 16

investigate persons suspected of engaging in subversive activities or otherwise promoting the establishment of a “totalitarian dictatorship,” either fascist or communist.

Question 17

censure

Answer 17

express severe disapproval of (someone or something), typically in a formal statement.

Question 18

massive retaliation

Answer 18

, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

Question 19

cia

Answer 19

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence

Question 20

u-2 spy plane

Answer 20

single-jet engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency

Question 21

khruschchev

Answer 21

d the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida.

Question 22

military industrial complex

Answer 22

warning of a close relationship between the government and its defense industry. Contracts by Agency.

Question 23

eisenhower doctrine

Answer 23

promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.

Question 24

gi bill

Answer 24

to any Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty, Selected Reserve and National Guard Armed Forces and their families. The benefit is designed to help servicemembers and eligible veterans cover the costs associated with getting an education or training.

Question 25

taft harley act

Answer 25

is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.

Question 26

election of 1948

Answer 26

truman v dewey

Question 27

fair deal

Answer 27

most important proposals were aid to education, universal health insurance, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, and repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act.

Question 28

federal highway act

Answer 28

With an original authorization of US$25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 10-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time.

Question 29

dynamic conversatism

Answer 29

“conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings.

Question 30

levittown

Answer 30

first suburbia

Question 31

the lonely crowd

Answer 31

sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney.

Question 32

salk

Answer 32

He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine.

Question 33

lorainne hansberry

Answer 33

A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success.