cold war

Question 1

ideas served as the basis of communism

Answer 1

karl marx

Question 2

first leader of USSR

Answer 2

vladimir lenin

Question 3

most infamous leader of USSR

Answer 3

joseph stalin

Question 4

a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens, politically

Answer 4

Totalitarianism

Question 5

individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery, everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create. gov is in control of everything, economically

Answer 5

Communism

Question 6

metaphor for the political division that separated Western Europe from the Soviet Union. divided capitalist and communist nations

Answer 6

Iron Curtain

Question 7

Harry Truman’s policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries threatened by soviet forces, in order to prevent the expansion of communism

Answer 7

Truman Doctrine/Containment

Question 8

when did the Truman Doctrine succeed?

Answer 8

generally succeeded in containing communism until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991

Question 9

USA gave billions of dollars in aid to 16 nations after WWII, to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe

Answer 9

Marshall Plan

Question 10

chairman of chinese communist party

Answer 10

Mao Zedong

Question 11

politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China

Answer 11

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 12

who won Chinese Civil War?

Answer 12

communists (Zedong)

Question 13

claimed that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities etc

Answer 13

Joe McCarthy

Question 14

the practice of making accusations of treason, especially when related to communism, and socialism, and especially when the accusations are false or unproven and are made in a public and attention-grabbing manner

Answer 14

McCarthyism

Question 15

broadcast journalist and war correspondent. devoted entire program to revealing Mccarthy’s lies

Answer 15

Edward R. Murrow

Question 16

34th president

Answer 16

“Ike” Eisenhower

Question 17

“Ike” Eisenhower served from..

Answer 17

January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961

Question 18

relationship between a country’s military and the defense industry that supplies it

Answer 18

“Military-industrial complex”

Question 19

Secretary of the Communist Party 1953-1954
supplied cuba with missiles

Answer 19

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 20

leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
cuba became a communist state because of him

Answer 20

Fidel Castro

Question 21

failed military landing operation in Cuba, was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro’s communist government

Answer 21

Bay of Pigs invasion

Question 22

JFK’s president policies

Answer 22

New Frontier

Question 23

36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969

Answer 23

LBJ

Question 24

He was a Communist leader in Vietnam (fought against the USA and the South Vietnamese)
If elections were held after the “temporary” division in 1955, he would’ve been elected
He received support from China and the USSR

Answer 24

Ho Chi Minh

Question 25

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Answer 25

Reagan

Question 26

number of U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam

Answer 26

58, 220

Question 27

What was the result of the First Gulf War? (It ended in March of 1991)

Answer 27

Iraqi defeat and retreat from Kuwait

Question 28

Explain Guns and Butter

Answer 28

the relationship between a nation's investment in defense and civilian goods. “Guns” - military defense needs “Butter"- education, hospitals, housing, schools - welfare

Question 29

Billie Holiday Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen, were all discovered by..

Answer 29

John H Hammond

Question 30

The _________________ Theory convinced JFK to intervene more in Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism

Answer 30

Domino theory

Question 31

weakened U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam

Answer 31

Tet Offensive influence on American public

Question 32

Which U.S. president was in office when the Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred?

Answer 32

Lyndon Johnson

Question 33

What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

Answer 33

two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces

Question 34

Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina. This led to the Vietnam War

Answer 34

US Gov response to Gulf of Tonkin

Question 35

Which President was in power when the USA recognized Communist China?

Answer 35

Nixon

Question 36

Which Cold War president was the most suspicious of big government domestic programs?

Answer 36

Reagan

Question 37

troops armed with rifles/tanks fired at protestors and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square

Answer 37

Tiananmen Square 1989

Question 38

Eastern (Communist) bloc (side)

Answer 38

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia

Question 39

evil empire” (from President Reagan) was directed at the past and present governments of what country?

Answer 39

soviet union

Question 40

Which Cold War President of the USA of the following can best be described as a “realist"

Answer 40

Nixon

Question 41

Which Cold War President of the USA of the following can best be described as a “idealist"

Answer 41

Woodrow Wilson

Question 42

3 countries of French Indochina

Answer 42

Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia

Question 43

What was the connection between Totalitarianism and Communism

Answer 43

both attempt at complete government control

Question 44

"military industrial complex" was said by

Answer 44

Dwight Eisenhower