Cold War

Question 1

Truman asked congress for $400 million to support free people resisting communist regime–specifically Greece and Turkey. What is this document called?

Answer 1

Truman Doctrine (1947)

Question 2

Under what document did the US provide money to rebuilding of Europe?

Answer 2

Marshall Plan (1947)

Question 3

This document was signed in 1949 in response to developing Cold War. Essentially it pledged that an attack against one would be considered attack against all (US, Canada, Britain, Europe).

Answer 3

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 3

Korean War (1950)

Answer 3

• North Korea invaded South Korea

- North = Communist

Question 4

What document was signed to counteract NATO?

Answer 4

Warsaw Treaty Org (1955)

Question 5

Cold War lasted from..

Answer 5

1947-1953

Question 6

In 1959, he overthrew Fulgencio Batista (dictator of Cuba). This person also criticized the US, became close with Soviet Union and signed trade agreement with them in 1960–US prohibited importation of Cuban sugar in response and diplomacy between two stopped in 1961.

Answer 6

Fidel Castro

Question 7

Atomic Energy Commission (1946)

Answer 7

Established civilian control over nuclear development and giving president authority over use of atomic weapons in warfare

Question 8

Sputnik (1957)

Answer 8

• Soviet satellite

- its launch made us fear they were falling behind technologically

Question 9

Taft-Hartley Act (1947)–an act proposed by republicans in Congress–said declared that labor unions could no longer what?

Answer 9

Labor unions could no longer force employers to hire only union members.

Question 10

Explorer I (1958)

Answer 10

• Satellite launched by US in response to soviet’s Sputnik

Question 12

Under what resolution did Congress authorized President Johnson could take any measures necessary to retaliate and promote peace in South East Asia (e.g Vietnam, Philippines)

Answer 12

Gulf Tonkin Resolution (1964)

Question 13

Containment

Answer 13

US strategy that called for confusing soviet expansion

Question 14

_________ was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. As the Vietnam War dragged on and the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam increased to more than 500,000 troops by 1968, the military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (who had worked on the study) came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be more widely available to the American public.

Answer 14

Pentagon Papers

Question 15

During what event was it considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a nuclear war?

Answer 15

Cuban Missile Crisis (1961)

Question 16

What was the US’s role in the Korean War?

Answer 16

The US never declared war on them; they were simply to act as “police action.”

Question 17

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard are associated with what?

Answer 17

Instrumental people in developing the atomic bomb