CH. 18 Vocal list

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an international organization (1945) after ww2 with the goal to maintain peace

international organization to maintain peace

Question 2

Satellite nations

Answer 2

countries where Stalin created communist governments, Alaska, Bulgaria, Czech., Hunagary, Romania, & Poland dominated by the Soviet Union

Stalin created communist goverments in coutnries dominated by the S.U

Question 3

Containment

Answer 3

a policy by George F. Kennan to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries

Question 4

Iron Curtain

Answer 4

a barrier by churchill to divide the capitalist and communist nations

Question 5

Truman Doctrine

Answer 5

policy by Truman, commited the U.S to supporting democratic nations resisting communist threats

Question 6

Marshall plan

Answer 6

1947-1954 revived European hopes ,16 countries received $13 billion in aid

helping 16 european countries and giving them $13 billion in aid

Question 7

Berlin airlift

Answer 7

flying foods and supplies into West Berlin for 327 days bringing tons of supplies

Question 8

Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 8

The Chinese politican leader of the Republic of China (ROC)

Question 9

Mao Zedong

Answer 9

a chinese politican and founder of the Peoples Republic of China, (PRC)

Question 10

Taiwan

Answer 10

A self governing democratic island were Chiang led the Peoples Republican of China

Question 11

38th Parallel

Answer 11

Japanese troops north of the border of North and South Korea surrendered to the soviets, the Japanese troops surrendered to the Americans

border between North & South Korea where Japanese surrendered to America

Question 12

Korean War

Answer 12

A conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies, North Korea was supported by the U.S

both sides of Koreafought & North korea was supported by U.S

Question 13

HUAC

Answer 13

House Un-American Activities Committee, an investigation committee of the U.S house of representatives (1938)

Question 14

Hollywood ten

Answer 14

10 insustry members; (producers, directors and screenwriters) who refused to testify to an anit-communist committee hearing during the red scare

10 industry memebers who didnt want to testify an anti-communist hearing

Question 15

Blacklist

Answer 15

A group of ten Hollywood writers, directors, and actors who got targeted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s

Question 16

Alger Hiss

Answer 16

Government lawyer and state department official who helped create the U.S Nations after WW2

Question 17

Ethel & Julian Rosenberg

Answer 17

An American married couple who got convicted of spying on the Soviet Union and the top secret info.

Question 18

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 18

An American politician who served as a Republican U.S senator

Question 19

H-Bomb

Answer 19

hydrogen bomb, a weapon that uses nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes to generate it explosive power

Question 20

Eisenhower Doctrine

Answer 20

A U.S foreign policy initiative made by President D Wright Eisenhower to help the threat of Soviet expansion

A policy by Eisenhower to help the threat of Soviet expansion

Question 21

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 21

A Soviet leader who was also the first secretary of the communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Chairmen (1953-1964)

Question 22

Brinkmanship

Answer 22

A strategy to push a dangerous situation to the edge of conflict to force an opposing party to surrender

pushing a dangerous situation hoping the other side will surrender

Question 23

Francis Gary Powers

Answer 23

An American pilot who was shot down in the U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union by the Soviet air forces

A pilot who got shot down in the U2 spy plane by the Soviet forces

Question 24

U2 incident

Answer 24

Francis Gary Powers a pilot who flew a spy plane over the Soviet Union and got shot down