Cold War

Question 1

Cold war

Answer 1

1945-1991, 2 enemies not actually fighting but building up military arms and forces to intimidate each other

Question 2

Proxy war

Answer 2

War instigated by major power which doesn’t itself become involved

Question 3

Capitalism

Answer 3

US, you can do whatever you want with your money

Question 4

Communism

Answer 4

USSR, takes your money and distributes it how they think is equal

Question 5

Containment

Answer 5

Keep communism from spreading

Question 6

Iron curtain

Answer 6

Imaginary boundary, dividing Europe into 2 separate areas

Question 7

NASA

Answer 7

National Aeronautics Space Administration (1958 under Eisenhower)

Question 8

Hot line

Answer 8

Line between Moscow and DC

Question 9

Flexible response

Answer 9

JFKs plan to send special troops aboard Green Beret trains to fight Guerrilla Warfare

Question 10

Harry Truman

Answer 10

Committed US to containment—————-

Question 11

Joseph Stalin

Answer 11

Refused Marshall Plan, soviet leader———————

Question 12

Fidel Castro

Answer 12

Important ally to Soviets—————-

Question 13

JFK

Answer 13

Elected in 1960, Cuban misled crisis——————

Question 14

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 14

Instigated Cuban missile crisis

Question 15

Senator Joseph McCarthy

Answer 15

HUAC, McCarthyism——————————

Question 16

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 17

John Foster Dulles

Question 18

William Levitt

Answer 18

Created the first mass-produced residential housing development after WW2

Question 19

Richard Nixon

Question 20

George Kennan

Answer 20

Wants to take aggressive actions to contain communism

Question 21

Lyndon Johnson

Question 22

Mao Zedong

Question 23

Chiangmai Kai-shek

Question 24

General MacArthur

Question 25

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 25

Killed JFK

Question 26

Earl Warren

Question 27

Jack Ruby

Answer 27

Killed the person who was believed to kill JFK

Question 28

Truman Doctorine

Answer 28

A commitment to help countries threatened by communism

Question 29

United Nations

Answer 29

50 nations met in San Francisco, new and improved league of nations

Question 30

Marshall Plan

Answer 30

George Marshall, US provide economic aid to European countries, proposed by Secretary of State

Question 31

Berlin Airlift

Answer 31

US and British cargo planes drop food, fuel, and other supplies into West Berlin for 10 months

Question 32

NATO

Answer 32

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, US, Canada and 10 other countries

Question 33

Warsaw Pact

Answer 33

1955, Soviets, and communist countries of Eastern Europe

Question 34

Nuclear Arms Race

Answer 34

Race between US, Soviets, Britain, and France to develop nuclear weapons

Question 35

Suez Canal

Answer 35

Trade route between Europe and Asia

Question 36

Berlin Wall

Answer 36

Wall of concrete blocks and barb wire built by East Germany gov w/ Soviet support. Cut off Communication/Travel between E/W Germany

Question 37

Hungary Rebellion

Answer 37

Exposed weakness of Eastern Europe communism

Question 38

The U2 Incident

Answer 38

The Soviets shot down the U2 spy plane and pilot Gary Powers was captured

Question 39

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 39

1962, US planes flew over Cuba and saw they were building missile sites that could be used to bomb US in nuclear war

Question 40

Bay of Pigs

Answer 40

1961, US sends CIA trained Cuban Refugees to Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro, major fail because he finds out about it and is awaiting US, he either captures or kills them all, JFK is humiliated

Question 41

Space Race

Answer 41

US vs USSR who can get 1st on moon

Question 42

Sputnik

Answer 42

Launched by USSR, first man made object to orbit earth

Question 43

Apollo 11

Answer 43

NASA program aimed to land a man on the moon

Question 44

Yalta conference

Question 45

Potsdam Conference

Question 46

HUAC

Answer 46

House un-American Activities Committee,

Question 47

McCarthyism

Answer 47

Unfounded accusations against alleged communists

Question 48

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Answer 48

Accused of spying, electric chair

Question 49

Krause Fuch

Answer 49

Soviet spy, 14 years in prison

Question 50

Hollywood 10

Answer 50

Ten editors, authors, etc, communist, arrested, blacklisted

Question 51

Beat Generation

Answer 51

Group of writers who were “weary with all forms of modern industrial state”

Question 52

GI Bill

Answer 52

Gov provided wide range of benefits for WW2 soldiers

Question 53

McCarran act

Answer 53

Requires all communists to register/provide list of members

Question 54

White Flight/suburbs

Answer 54

Middle class, white Americans “take off” to suburbs, leaving behind lands of poverty

Question 55

Baby Boom

Answer 55

Post war, everyone thought it was safe to start families

Question 56

Elvis Presley

Answer 56

King of rock n roll, died in 1977

Question 57

Feminine Mystique

Answer 57

Betty Friedman book describing the frustration and unhappiness of suburban housewives

Question 58

Election of 1948

Answer 58

Greatest upset in election history. Truman (democrat) beats Dewey (republican)

Question 59

Election of 1952

Answer 59

Eisenhower (republican) has a landslide victory over Stevenson (democrat)

Question 60

Election of 1960

Answer 60

JFK (democrat) beats Nixon (republican)