Chapter 27 "The Cold War"

Question 1

How many years elapsed between the launch of Sputnik and the formation of NASA?

Answer 1

1 Year

Question 2

When was Israel established?

Answer 2

1948

Question 3

Why were the Rosenburgs executed?

Answer 3

Communist Activities

Question 4

The Big Three

Answer 4

Stalin - Soviet Union
Roosevelt - USA
Churchill - Great Britain

Question 5

Yalta Conference

Answer 5

Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin met in Soviet City, Yalta

Question 6

Potsdam Conference, held in Germany, July 1945

Answer 6

France, Great Britain, US, and the Soviet Union divided Germany and when its capital, Berlin, into four zones

Question 7

United Nations (UN)

Answer 7

An organization dedicated to resolving world conflicts

Question 8

Iron Curtain

Answer 8

A barrier that prevents free exchange of ideas and information (1945-1990)

Question 9

The Cold War

Answer 9

The struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union

Question 10

Containment

Answer 10

Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influences around the world

Question 11

Marshall Plan

Answer 11

U.S. gave Western Europe $13 billion in loans to rebuild after WWII

Question 12

Truman Doctrine

Answer 12

A policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism became known

Question 13

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Answer 13

• An alliance of U.S.A., Canada, Iceland, and nine Western European countries started in 1949
• They promised to defend each other

Question 14

Warsaw Pact

Answer 14

An alliance of Soviet Union and Eastern European countries

Question 15

GI Bill of Rights

Service Man’s Readjustment Act

Answer 15

Offered veterans money for school as well as loans for houses, farms, and businesses

Question 16

Labor Unrest

Answer 16

• 35% of workers were members of unions
• Millions workers went on strike
• Truman did not do a good job handling labor strikes

Question 17

1947 Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 17

1. Nonunion workers can be hired,

2. Must have an 80 day cooling off period before strike is held

Question 18

Fair Deal

Answer 18

• Higher minimum wage (from 40¢ to 75¢ and hour)

* Expanded Social Security for elderly

Question 19

Labor Unrest

Answer 19

• 35% of workers were members of unions
• Millions workers went on strike
• Truman did not do a good job handling labor strikes

Question 20

1947 Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 20

1. Nonunion workers can be hired,

2. Must have an 80 day cooling off period before strike is held

Question 21

Fair Deal

Answer 21

• Higher minimum wage (from 40¢ to 75¢ an hour)

* Expanded Social Security for elderly

Question 22

38th Parallel

Answer 22

Divides North and South Korea

Question 23

Mao Zedong

Answer 23

Communist government leader of China Oct. 1, 1949

Question 24

Hydrogen Bomb

Answer 24

A weapon far more powerful than the atomic bombs used in Word War II

Question 25

Arms Race

Answer 25

The United States and Soviet Union rushing to build more and more weapons

Question 26

Sputnik

Answer 26

Soviets first satellite (Oct. 1957) * Orbit height: 359 mi * The worlds first artificial satellite

Question 27

Brinkmanship

Answer 27

A willingness to go to the brink of war to oppose communism

Question 28

Red Scare

Answer 28

People in America were afraid of communists in 1940's-1950's

Question 29

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 29

Believed communists were working in the State Department

Question 30

McCarthyism

Answer 30

Accusing someone of communist activity without proof

Question 31

NASA

Answer 31

National Aerodynamics and Space Administration | *Located in Washington D.C.

Question 31

Covert

Answer 31

Secret

Question 32

What crisis began when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt?

Answer 32

Suez Crisis (Canal)

Question 33

When did American Scientists test the first hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific?

Answer 33

1952

Question 34

Baby Boom

Answer 34

A significant increase in the number of babies born

Question 35

Sun Belt

Answer 35

Southern and Western states that offered a warm climate year-round and low tax rates

Question 36

Urban Renewal

Answer 36

A program that makes a plan to improve life in cities

Question 37

In the 1950's the federal government began an urban renewal program mainly to do what?

Answer 37

Improve life in the cities

Question 38

During the 1950's, musicians such as Elvis Presley helped what type of music become popular?

Answer 38

Rock 'n' Roll

Question 39

In the 1950's many people moved to what area because the taxes were low?

Answer 39

Sun Belt

Question 40

What was the 1952 novel that focused on the isolation from mainstream society felt by many African Americans

Answer 40

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Question 41

Some suburban communities, including Levittown, refused to sell homes to who?

Answer 41

African Americans

Question 42

What year did Senator Edward R. Murrow claim to know of Communists who were aiding the Soviet Union from inside the U.S. State Department?

Answer 42

He never did, it was Senator Joseph McCarthy

Question 43

The United States joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada to from what?

Answer 43

NATO