L2

Question 1

38th parallel

Answer 1

When the allies divided Korea
Soviet- northern
US- southern

Question 2

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 2

Wisconsin senator

Believed communists were working in the state department

Question 3

Hydrogen bomb

Answer 3

A weapon far more powerful than the atomic bombs used in WWII

Question 4

Arms race

Answer 4

Both the US and the Soviet Union rushed to build more and more weapons

Question 5

Sputnik

Answer 5

Soviet a launched first satellite Oct. 1957

Question 6

Brinkmanship

Answer 6

A willingness to go to the edge of war to fight communism

Question 7

Mao Zedong

Answer 7

Communist leader of China on October 1, 1949

Question 8

Julius and Ethel Rosenburgs

Answer 8

1. on the charge of conspiracy to commit espionage.

2. accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

Question 9

Red scare

Answer 9

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

Question 10

McCarthyism

Answer 10

Accusing someone of communist activities without proof

Question 11

NASA

Answer 11

National Aerodynamics and Space Administration

* located in Washington D.C

Question 12

Covert

Answer 12

Secret

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Suez Crisis (canal)

Question 14

When did American scientists test the first atomic bomb in the South Pacific?

Answer 14

1952

Question 15

American scientists

Answer 15

W

Question 16

In 1950, Senator Edward R. Murrow claimed to know of Communists who were helping the Soviet Union from inside the U.S State Department.

Answer 16

False

Should be Joseph McCarthy

Question 17

The U.S joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada to form _______________.

Answer 17

NATO