Cold

Question 1

Why is called a Cold War?

Answer 1

No large-scale fighting

Question 2

Capitalism

Answer 2

Buy/sell what you want

Question 3

communism

Answer 3

Gov. Fully controlled

Question 4

containment

Answer 4

US must take aggressive steps to contain communist expansion

Question 5

Iron Curtain

Answer 5

Line across Europe where NATO and Warsaw touched

Question 6

NASA

Answer 6

national Aeronautic Space Administration

Question 7

Domino Theory

Answer 7

Once one country falls, they all will

Question 8

US Leader when Cold War started

Answer 8

Truman

Question 9

Soviet leader when Cold War started

Answer 9

Joseph Stalin

Question 10

Fidel Castro

Answer 10

Cuban Leader during Cold War

Question 11

3rd President in Cold War

Answer 11

Kennedy

Question 12

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 12

Took over after Stalin

Question 13

Eisenhower

Answer 13

US war general, 2 president in Cold War

Question 14

William Levitt

Answer 14

introduced mass-produced housing based on navy model

Question 15

Who created containment

Answer 15

George Kennan

Question 16

Who took over after Jfk

Answer 16

LBJ

Question 17

Mao Zedong

Answer 17

Communist leader of mainland china

Question 18

chaing Kai-shek

Answer 18

Taiwan bound leader of the kuomintang

Question 19

general MacArthur

Answer 19

sent to push Koreans behind 38th parallel, get fired for crossing a river that was too far

Question 20

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 20

killed Kennedy

Question 21

Jack Ruby

Answer 21

Kills Oswald

Question 22

Truman doctrine

Answer 22

Truman’s Domestic policy, our right to help countries threatened by communism

Question 23

Marshall Plan

Answer 23

US give economic aid to European countries threatened by communism

Question 24

Berlin Airlift

Answer 24

Ppl in Berlin were feeling hopeless so US dropped supplies

Question 25

NATO

Answer 25

North-Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 26

Warsaw Pact

Answer 26

Soviet Union, Opposing NATO

Question 27

Nuclear arms race

Answer 27

SU and US competing about arms

Question 28

Cuban Missile crisis

Answer 28

USSR had a misslie ready to shoot us in cuba, but we told them that we had one in turkey reafy to shoot them, and Kennedy kept us out of war

Question 29

bay of pigs

Answer 29

US trained Cuban immigrants by CIA to overthrow Castro

Question 30

Space Race

Answer 30

US and USSR competing to send stuff to space

Question 31

Sputnik/Vanguard

Answer 31

Sputnik was first thing is space sent by SU, Vanguard was US’s try but it failed; nickname “flopnick”

Question 32

HUAC

Answer 32

House Un-American Activities Committee, created by Hollywood 10

Question 33

McCarthyism

Answer 33

thought that everyone was secretly communist, create my McCarthy

Question 34

the Rosenberg s

Answer 34

First couple sent to death penalty, executed for alleged atom spying

Question 35

Klaus Fuch

Answer 35

Double-Agent

Question 36

Hollywood 10

Answer 36

Group of famous people who got blacklisted, created HUAC

Question 37

Beat Genereation

Answer 37

writers who were “beat with the current industrial state”

Question 38

GI bill

Answer 38

Gave $ to GIs

Question 39

McCarran Act

Answer 39

Required all communists to register/provide a list of members

Question 40

Suburbs

Answer 40

Residential area on fringes of major cities, 75% of new house construction

Question 41

Baby boom

Answer 41

1946-1964, higher incomes and better healthcare, causes 20% increase of babies

Question 42

Election of 1948

Answer 42

Dewey(R)
Truman (D) (wins)
Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
Wallace (progressive)

Question 43

Election of 1952

Answer 43

Eisenhower (R) (wins)
Stevenson (D)

Question 44

election of 1960

Answer 44

JFK(D) (wins), VP is LBJ
Nixon (R)

Question 45

massive Retaliation

Answer 45

A country threatened to use nuclear weapons in response to an act of aggression by an enemy

Question 46

Korean leader in the north

Answer 46

Kim il Sung

Question 47

Korean leader in the south

Answer 47

Syngman Rhee