809 Q1 - Changing Frontiers Flashcards
What restricted Presidents to only two terms?
Twenty-second Amendment
What bloc was formed from the Soviet Union and many Eastern European Countries. Known as the “East”
Eastern Bloc
Who was fired because he criticized the President and refused to obey orders?
General MacArthur
What was created to improve living standards in the Soviet Union?
Five-Year Plan
Who was convicted and executed for spying?
The Rosenbergs
What helped veterans of WWII after they returned home? Was also known as the GI Bill.
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
What type of economic system allows ownership of property and business?
Free Enterprise
What plan gave Europe financial assistance in rebuilding their postwar economy?
The Marshall Plan
What limited the labor unions’ power to strike quickly
Taft-Hartley Act
What desegregated the military
Executive Order 9981
What is an area kept free of heavy weapons?
A demilitarized zone
What was the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union known as?
Cold War
What were the leaders of the Big Three nations?
Franklin Roosevelt (US), Joseph Stalin (USSR), and Winston Churchill (Britain)
Who was the senator who accused the State Department of promoting communists?
Joseph McCarthy
What was the time during which planes flew supplies to West Berlin because of a Soviet blockade?
Berlin Airlift
What were the main goals of the United Nations?
To preserve world peace and promote the general good of mankind.
The main purpose of the Central intelligence agency is to do what?
Record information about foreign nations
What was the island to which the Nationalists fled after the communists forced them out of China?
Taiwan
What was created to counter NATO and was composed of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries?
Warsaw Pact
What organization was composed of America, Canada, and European nations who agreed to protect each other from Soviet attacks?
NATO
Opposing sides in the Cold War were called what?
blocs
What term refers to the Soviet control in Eastern Europe?
Iron Curtain
What type of economic system controls business and property is owned by the government?
Communism
