COLD WAR

Question 1

Who was the nationalist in the Chinese war

Answer 1

Chiang Kai-Shek

Southern China

Question 2

Who was the communist leader for china

Answer 2

Mao Zedong

Question 3

What happened during Chinese civil war?

Answer 3

1946
1949 nationalists were losing
Forced me into Taiwan- Republic of china
Mao Zedong controlled a people’s republic of china

Question 4

What significance did the Chinese civil war have

Answer 4

It showed containment failed
If china could become communist so could any country
Us realized money wasn’t the solution

Question 5

For Korean War what became communist

Answer 5

North of 38 parallel (Pyongyang)

Question 6

What part of Korea became democratic

Answer 6

South of 38 parallel (Seoul)

Question 7

What was the fear of the Korean War

Answer 7

Afraid it would turn into international war

Question 8

How did us win the Korean War

Answer 8

MacAurthur threw off North Korea with double invasion

Meat grinder the us slowly push NK back

Question 9

How many times does Seoul change hands

Answer 9

4

Question 10

Why was MacAurthur fired

Answer 10

For insubordination

Question 11

Results of Korean War

Answer 11

NK nuclear threat

SK surviving economically, NK struggling

Question 12

G.I. Bill

Answer 12

Government issue passed by FDR tua gave WWII veterans $50 monthly and $500 annually for college

Question 13

Conservatism

Answer 13

Stay same

Question 14

Complacency

Answer 14

Not happy with trash but won’t pick it up

Question 15

Contentment

Answer 15

Happy comfortable

Question 16

What were factors that would push for Americans to move to the suburbs

Answer 16

Baby boom
GI bill
Cheap housing
Automobiles

Question 17

1950s work place change

Answer 17

Factory (blue collar) decrease l, increase in white collar jobs

Question 18

Interstate highway act

Answer 18

Largest public works project in American history

41,000 miles of new highway built

Question 19

Social conformity

Answer 19

Everyone wanted to be the same due to fear of communism; standing out and being called communist

Question 20

Behavior rules for teens

Answer 20

Obey authority
Control emotions
No sex!
Don’t make waves- fit in with the group

Question 21

What was a major social characteristic of the 1950

Answer 21

Drastic population increase

Question 22

Women roles and men roles

Answer 22

Women-married,cooked, family care,

Men- provider, protector, boss

Question 23

What happened 1957-1958

Answer 23

Russians launch sputnik
Us starts NASA
Launches explorer 1 satellite
Starts national defense education act (prepare for threat of communism)

Question 24

Truman doctrine

Answer 24

US must help any nation who is fighting against communism taking over their own county

Question 25

Containment

Answer 25

Us policy that prevent spread of communism

Question 26

Satellite nations

Answer 26

Countries dominated by Soviet Union Albania Hungary

Question 27

The us agreed to two things when the Cuban missle crisis happened

Answer 27

To leave Cuba alone and deescalation through diplomacy (taking out missels) ends Cold War here

Question 28

East of iron curtain in 1955 was

Answer 28

Warsaw Pact

Question 29

Marshall plan

Answer 29

Us would give financial aid to Europe, Western Europe s

Question 30

Berlin airlift

Answer 30

First major confrontation of the Cold War Stalin blockades the city of Berlin Us makes regular flights to deliver necessary goods to the city, lasted 10 days

Question 31

NATO

Answer 31

North Atlantic treaty organization | Created as a millitary alliance to protect members from soviet takeover

Question 32

NSC 68

Answer 32

National security council document, us triple its defense budget based on new demands for global security

Question 33

Warsaw Pact

Answer 33

Balance the power of NATO | Communist

Question 34

Joesph McCarthy

Answer 34

Power in senate Accused government employees of being communist Support out of fear

Question 35

Hollywood 10

Answer 35

Writers actors directors jailed for contempt | Refused to answer committee questions

Question 36

Who was in charge of HUAC

Answer 36

Chairman J Parnell Thomas

Question 37

Rosenberg

Answer 37

``` Former communist members Accused of espionage Denied charges Died by electric chair "First spies" to be killed ```

Question 38

Downfall of McCarthy

Answer 38

Reckless Accused army reps Public fed up Loses his power

Question 39

Election of 1952

Answer 39

Eisenhower chooses Nixon- strong anti communism Nixon accused of 18,000 fund And he used his cocker spaniel checkers to resolve the issue

Question 40

Joesph stalins successor was

Answer 40

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 41

What country also divided into north and south

Answer 41

Vietnam

Question 42

What is SEATO

Answer 42

Southeast Asia treaty organization | Agreed to work together to resist communist aggression

Question 43

Arms race

Answer 43

An international contest between the United States and the Soviet Union in which each side is was seeking a military advantage over the other

Question 44

Brinkmanship

Answer 44

The diplomatic art of going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons

Question 45

Soviet advances in technology

Answer 45

Soviets launch Sputnik artificial satellite 1957

Question 46

Us advances in technology

Answer 46

1958 launched explorer 1 satellite | Established NASA

Question 47

Who were beatniks

Answer 47

Hippies