Cold War

Question 0

What was the arrangement between United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia for joint occupation of Germany

Answer 0

Potsdam conference

Question 1

What was established after World War 2

Answer 1

United Nations

Question 2

What area of Germany did the Allies control and which did the Soviets control

Answer 2

Allies- West side

Soviets- East Side

Question 3

Japan was occupied by the us until which year

Answer 3

1952

Question 4

What was the rivalry between the US and the Soviets called

Answer 4

The Cold War

Question 5

Satellite nations under soviets control

Answer 5

Estonia, Latria, Lituania, Manchuria, Poland, and Romania

Question 6

The US adopted which policy on Soviet Communism

Answer 6

Containment- restricting the expansion of soviet communism

Question 7

Gave $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey

Answer 7

Truman Doctrine

Question 8

Gave $17 billion in economic aid to Europe

Answer 8

Marshall plan in 1948 (Won a Nobel Prize in 1953)

Question 9

Why did we give Europe all of that money

Answer 9

So they would not turn to the Soviets for help

Question 10

What did Britain, France and the US want to do

Answer 10

Expand their zone of Germany into one government- 1948

Question 11

Where did the US and British planes take the food

Answer 11

The people of Berlin

Question 12

What happened to the blockade of West Germany

Answer 12

In 1949 the soviets lifted the blockade and West Germany was established

Question 13

When was NATO created

Answer 13

1949 (alliance of Western nations(non-communist))

Question 14

When was the Warsaw Pact created

Answer 14

1955 (alliance of Eastern nation(Communist))

Question 15

The War Department was replaced with what

Answer 15

The Department of Defense in 1947

Question 16

Created to advise the president on a strategic matter

Answer 16

National Security Council

Question 17

Created to gather political and military information overseas

Answer 17

Central Intelligence Agency

Question 18

House on Un-American Activities Committee

Answer 18

Held hearings to investigate people in the movie industry-1947

Question 19

Film directors and writers that went to jail instead of answering HUAC’s questions

Answer 19

Hollywood Ten (were blacklisted)

Question 20

What else did HUAC do

Answer 20

Investigated individuals of spying for the soviets

Question 21

Rosenburgs executed

Answer 21

1953

Question 22

Intensified fear of communism

Answer 22

McCarthyism -1950’s

Question 23

Who fueled the suspicions

Answer 23

Joseph McCarthy- a Wisconsin Senator, 1950- claimed there were communists in the federal government

Question 24

Army-McCarty hearing were televised

Answer 24

1954

Question 25

Who won the Civil War

Answer 25

Mao Zedong and the communists

Question 26

What did china do

Answer 26

Created the Peoples Republic of China. 1949- China became communist

Question 27

Allies divided Korea into 2 sections

Answer 27

1945

Question 28

Who occupied the north of Korea

Answer 28

The Soviets (Communist)

Question 29

Who occupied the South of Korea

Answer 29

The US 1950- North Korea invades South Korea

Question 30

Commander in Korea

Answer 30

Douglas MacArthur

Question 31

What did China do durning the invasion of South Korea

Answer 31

China joined the war on North Koreas side

Question 32

When did Eisenhower become president

Answer 32

1952

Question 33

When was the armistice signed between North and South Korea

Answer 33

1953 North is still Communist South is still free

Question 34

When did the worlds first satellite be launched

Answer 34

1957- Sputnik by the Soviets

Question 35

What did the US do after Sputnik was launched

Answer 35

Created NASA