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Question 1

Potsdam Conference

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill- changed to Clement Atlee, and Harry Truman: decided that Germany would remain divided with one zone friendly to the US and one zone friendly to Communist, pro-Soviet government

Question 2

Chiang Kai-Shek

Answer 2

Led a corrupt and incompetent government with weak popular support, a nationalist leader

Question 3

Mao Ze-dong

Answer 3

In a long and bitter rivalry with Chiang Kai-Shek

a Communist leader in China

Question 4

Pro-American Sphere of Influence

Answer 4

Idea in Asia and Europe that was becoming more widely accepted; areas controlled by America through financial and military aid

Question 5

Containment

Answer 5

Stop the spread of Communism, what the US would work to do

Question 6

George F. Keenan

Answer 6

One of the architects of the idea of containment, was critical of the US sweeping view of containment

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

A plan to provide economic assistance to all European nations that would join in drafting a program for recovery

Question 8

National Sec. (?) Act of 1947

Answer 8

Reshaped the US major military and diplomatic institutions

Gave the president expanded power

Question 9

CIA

Answer 9

Replaced wartime office of Strategic Services and was responsible for collecting info through open and covert methods
Also carried out secret political and military operations

Question 10

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Answer 10

Declared that an attack against one member was an attack against all, a military alliance

Question 11

West Berlin

Answer 11

A symbol of resisting Communist expansion

A city governed by West Germany but entirely surrounded by communist East Germany

Question 12

Warsaw Pact

Answer 12

The alliance with the Soviet Union and the Communist governments of Eastern Europe
Communist counter to our NATO

Question 13

Marshall Josip Tito

Answer 13

Leader of Yugoslavia

Question 14

Berlin Airlift

Answer 14

Brought in supplies to West Germany

Question 15

General Douglas MacArthur

Answer 15

Led the US occupation of Japan

Question 16

House of Un-American Activities Committee

Answer 16

(HUAC) they held widely publicized investigations to prove that, if under democratic rule, the government had tolerated Communist subversion

Question 17

“The Hollywood Ten”

Answer 17

Writers and producers who were previously Communists who were called to testify
Those who refused to answer questions about their own political beliefs were put in jail

Question 18

Alger Hiss

Answer 18

A former high-ranking member of the state department

He sued Chambers, accused of passing classified state documents to the Soviet Union

Question 19

Whittaker Chambers

Answer 19

A former Communist who turned against the party to become a time magazine editor
Accused Hiss (?)

Question 20

J. Edgar Hoover

Answer 20

Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

He investigated and harassed alleged radicals

Question 21

Cold War

Answer 21

A war of words, a tense and dangerous rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II

Question 22

“Uncle Joe”

Answer 22

Nickname Americans gave to Joseph Stalin

Question 23

Yalta 1945

Answer 23

A peace conference held in the Soviet city of Yalta where the Big Three reached agreements

Question 24

Revisionist Interpretation

Answer 24

The restating of the motives and decisions that governed American actions in world affairs

Question 25

United Nations

Answer 25

The new international organization which was made up of a General Assembly and Security Council and established in 1945 at the Yalta Conference

Question 26

Security Council

Answer 26

Permanent representatives of the five major powers (the United States, Great Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union) who would have veto power in the United Nations

Question 27

“Zone of Occupation”

Answer 27

The four zones of Germany which Great Britain, the US, France, and the Soviet Union controlled separately after WWII

Question 28

NSC-68

Answer 28

Outlined a shift in the American position in foreign policy

Said the US must begin a massive build up of weapons to stay ahead of the Soviets

Question 29

Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944

Answer 29

Also known as the GI Bill of Rights, provided economic and educational assistance of veterans

Question 30

“Fair Deal”

Answer 30

Truman’s 21 point domestic program

Question 31

States’ Rights Party

Answer 31

Or one faction of the Democratic Party that abandoned

Nominated Strom Thurmond

Question 32

Progressive Party

Answer 32

Democratic party’s left wing formed this with Henry A. Wallace as its candidate

Question 33

Thomas E. Dewey

Answer 33

Republican nominee for the Election of 1948, Governor of New York and one of the nation’s leading political figures

Question 34

Syngman Rhee

Answer 34

Anti communist but only nominally democratic, South Korean statesman

Question 35

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 35

Spies for the Soviet Union who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage (spying), gave the Soviet Union information about the making of the atomic bomb

Question 36

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 36

Made claims that there was a large number of Soviet spies in the US government and elsewhere, he was therefore censured by the US Senate

Question 37

Red Scare

Answer 37

The promotion of fear of a potential rise of Communism

Question 38

Adlai Stevenson

Answer 38

Nominated as the Democratic candidate in the 1952 presidential election, lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 39

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 39

Elected president in 1952, Republican, had been Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II

Question 40

“Checkers Speech”

Answer 40

Address made by Richard Nixon because he was accused of being dishonest about funds meant to reimburse him for his political expenses