809 Q1 - Changing Frontiers

Question 1

What restricted Presidents to only two terms?

Answer 1

Twenty-second Amendment

Question 2

What bloc was formed from the Soviet Union and many Eastern European Countries. Known as the “East”

Answer 2

Eastern Bloc

Question 3

Who was fired because he criticized the President and refused to obey orders?

Answer 3

General MacArthur

Question 4

What was created to improve living standards in the Soviet Union?

Answer 4

Five-Year Plan

Question 5

Who was convicted and executed for spying?

Answer 5

The Rosenbergs

Question 6

What helped veterans of WWII after they returned home? Was also known as the GI Bill.

Answer 6

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

Question 7

What type of economic system allows ownership of property and business?

Answer 7

Free Enterprise

Question 8

What plan gave Europe financial assistance in rebuilding their postwar economy?

Answer 8

The Marshall Plan

Question 9

What limited the labor unions’ power to strike quickly

Answer 9

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 10

What desegregated the military

Answer 10

Executive Order 9981

Question 11

What is an area kept free of heavy weapons?

Answer 11

A demilitarized zone

Question 12

What was the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union known as?

Answer 12

Cold War

Question 13

What were the leaders of the Big Three nations?

Answer 13

Franklin Roosevelt (US), Joseph Stalin (USSR), and Winston Churchill (Britain)

Question 14

Who was the senator who accused the State Department of promoting communists?

Answer 14

Joseph McCarthy

Question 15

What was the time during which planes flew supplies to West Berlin because of a Soviet blockade?

Answer 15

Berlin Airlift

Question 16

What were the main goals of the United Nations?

Answer 16

To preserve world peace and promote the general good of mankind.

Question 17

The main purpose of the Central intelligence agency is to do what?

Answer 17

Record information about foreign nations

Question 18

What was the island to which the Nationalists fled after the communists forced them out of China?

Answer 18

Taiwan

Question 19

What was created to counter NATO and was composed of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries?

Answer 19

Warsaw Pact

Question 20

What organization was composed of America, Canada, and European nations who agreed to protect each other from Soviet attacks?

Answer 20

NATO

Question 21

Opposing sides in the Cold War were called what?

Answer 21

blocs

Question 22

What term refers to the Soviet control in Eastern Europe?

Answer 22

Iron Curtain

Question 23

What type of economic system controls business and property is owned by the government?

Answer 23

Communism