History Chapter 15

Question 1

After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States

Answer 1

Cold War

Question 2

A term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite nations and Western Europe

Answer 2

Iron Curtain

Question 3

An American plan to help European nations rebuild their economies after World War II

Answer 3

Marshall Plan

Question 4

The wall built by the communist East German government in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin

Answer 4

Berlin Wall

Question 5

(NATO) a political and military alliance between the United States, Canada, and European nations created in 1949

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 6

A military alliance, established in 1955, of the Soviet Union and other communist states in Europe

Answer 6

Warsaw Pact

Question 7

(UN) a world organization established in 1945 to provide peaceful resolutions to international conflicts

Answer 7

United Nations

Question 8

The dividing line between South and North Korea

Answer 8

38th parallel

Question 8

(DMZ) an area in which military forces are prohibited

Answer 8

demilitarized zone

Question 9

The use of reckless charges of disloyalty

Answer 9

mccarthyism

Question 10

A rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money

Answer 10

Inflation

Question 11

A large increase in birthrate from the late 1940s through the early 1960s

Answer 11

Baby Boom

Question 11

A residential area on the outskirts of a city

Answer 11

Suburb

Question 12

The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Answer 12

Segregation

Question 13

The efforts of African Americans to win equal rights, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s

Answer 13

civil rights movement

Question 13

The mixing of different racial or ethnic groups

Answer 13

Integration

Question 14

A program to provide more job and education opportunities for people who faced discrimination in the past

Answer 14

affirmative action

Question 14

A form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave

Answer 14

Sit-Ins

Question 15

A person who moves from one region to another in search of work

Answer 15

Migrant worker

Question 16

1964 law outlawing discrimination in hiring based on gender and on race

Answer 16

civil rights act

Question 16

A 1963 law requiring equal pay for equal work

Answer 16

equal pay act

Question 17

A nation with the military, political, and economic strength to influence events worldwide

Answer 17

Superpower

Question 18

A major Cold War confrontation in 1962 when Kennedy ordered Soviet ships carrying missiles to be blocked from entering Cuba

Answer 18

cuban missle crisis

Question 18

The failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,400 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, were captured after landing at the Bay of Pigs

Answer 18

Bay of pigs invatsion

Question 19

(Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear warheads and missiles

Answer 19

SALT agreement

Question 20

A political scandal involving illegal activities that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974

Answer 20

Watergate