Chapter 25.2: The Cold War

Question 1

Yuri Gagarin

Answer 1

USSR leading in the space race with touchdown of Luna 2 and orbit of Earth by this person
- first Russian cosmonaut launched into orbit despite failures and accidents

Question 2

Julius, Ethel Rosenburg, Alger Hiss

Answer 2

Built on sensational cases of espionage, accerlating government anti-communist investigations most in the form of the HUAC
- offered Joseph Mc Carthy evidence to allege a vast Soviet conspiracy to infilitrate and subvert US government and justify smearing all left-liberals

Question 3

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Answer 3

Led to government anti-communist investigations accelerating
- held hearings on communist influence in American society and was tasked to investgiate communism, often visiting Hollywood

Question 4

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 4

Made sweeping accusations of communist subversion and convened public hearings supported by J.Edgar Hoover
- made common cause with prominnet religious anticommmunists

Achived national prominent by waving piece of paper claiming 205 communists working in the Members of the Department of State

Question 5

J. Edgar Hoover

Answer 5

Supported accusations of communist subversion and convened public hearings, leading to FBI taking an active role in the domestic battle against communism, inciting panic by creating propagandistic films and shows

Question 6

Blacklists

Answer 6

Ended careers of Hollywood peeps, hundreds of film artsits barred from industry work for the next decade

Question 7

Hollywood Ten

Answer 7

Ending a person’s career because they refused to cooperate
- created precedent for a blacklist

Question 8

Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 8

Restricted labor organizing overroding Truma’s veto with support of both partieis
- gave union officials the initative to purge communists from the labor movement

Question 9

Domino Theory

Answer 9

Justified interventions leading to the creation of a permnant war economy termed “military-industrial complex”
standard basis for the justification of U.S. interventions abroad

Question 10

“military-industrial complex”

Answer 10

Permanant war economy cultivating an influence towards economical, political, and spiritual aspects in every city, statehouse, federal government (domestic connections between arms manufacters, Congress members, and Department of Defense
- American foreign policy securing foreign markets to protect American trade from across the globe

Question 11

Proxy Wars

Answer 11

Cold War superpower rivarly was fought through many of this, soft power “war for hearts and minds”
- Soviets trying to sway world supporting leftwing liberation movements when espoused by anti-American sentiments