Ch. 18 Test

Question 1

What was the Cold War

Answer 1

U.S (democracy) vs. Soviets (communism). US wanted to stop communism

Question 2

Yalta conference

Answer 2

Feb 1945, UN was created, soviets promised free elections in Poland, soviets wanted Germany to pay recreations

Question 3

Harry S. Truman

Answer 3

Pres during early part of Cold War

Question 4

Potsdam conference

Answer 4

July 1945, divided Germany into 3 zones

Question 5

Satellite nations

Answer 5

Nations that were dominated by the soviets

Question 6

Iron curtain

Answer 6

What Truman called division of Europe

Question 7

What did George Kennan do to stop spread of communism

Answer 7

Contained he spread of communism

Question 8

Truman doctrine

Answer 8

1946, US gave $400 million of aid to Greece and turkey to stop spread of communism

Question 9

Marshall plan

Answer 9

1947, US gave economic aid to European nations to rebuild after WW2

Question 10

Why did the soviets blockade West Berlin?

Answer 10

They wanted to starve them out.

Question 11

Berlin aircraft

Answer 11

US aircraft that would fly over West Berlin and send down supplies

Question 12

Nationalists leader

Answer 12

Kai-Shek

Question 13

Communists leader

Answer 13

Mao Zedong

Question 14

Who won the war between the Chinese nationalist vs communist war?

Answer 14

The communists

Question 15

When did china become communists

Answer 15

1949

Question 16

Formosa

Answer 16

Now today as Taiwan, nationalists fled there when losing their war w the communists.

Question 17

Korean War

Answer 17

1950-1953

Question 18

North Korea

Answer 18

Communists, soviets

Question 19

South Korea

Answer 19

Democracy, US

Question 20

38th parallel

Answer 20

Demilitarized zone, most tense border in the world today, 28,000 US troops stationed there

Question 21

UN

Answer 21

Us troops sent to South Korea

Question 22

MacArthur vs. Truman

Answer 22

Mac Arthur wanted to drop an atomic bomb on China bedroom and said no, Truman fired Mac

Question 23

Armistice

Answer 23

Truce, never a peace treaty, war is still going on in Korea

Question 24

Who helped North Korea

Answer 24

China

Question 25

Who helped South Korea

Answer 25

US

Question 26

HUAC

Answer 26

Investigated possible Communis influence, both inside and outside the US government

Question 27

Hollywood 10

Answer 27

Men that refuse to testify against assumptions of communism

Question 28

Blacklist

Answer 28

List of people whom they condemned for having a communist background

Question 29

Algar Hiss

Answer 29

Accused of spying on the Soviet union

Question 30

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Answer 30

Minor activism do you American Communist Party

Question 31

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 31

Republican from Wisconsin

Question 32

McCarthyism

Answer 32

Attacks on suspected communist in the early 1950s

Question 33

H-bomb

Answer 33

Hydrogen bomb

Question 34

U2 incident

Answer 34

A US U2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace

Question 35

Francis Gary Powers

Answer 35

U2 pilot

Question 36

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 36

Believed communism would take over the world

Question 37

Eisenhower doctrine

Answer 37

US would defend the middle east against attack by any communist country

Question 38

Warsaw Pact

Answer 38

Linked to the soviet union with seven Eastern European countries

Question 39

John Foster Dulles

Answer 39

Anti-Communist Eisenhower secretary

Question 40

CIA

Answer 40

You spies to gather information abroad

Question 41

Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 41

President during this time

Question 42

What was the red scareloyalty review program

Answer 42

If you’re in Communism is going to take over the US

Question 43

Loyalty review program

Answer 43

Finding out if government employees are loyal or disloyal

Question 44

HUAC committee

Answer 44

House of un-American activities committee