Cold War

Question 0

Basic freedoms in the U.S.?

Answer 0

Freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of business; freedom of religion

Question 1

Means of production

Answer 1

The facilities and resources for producing goods (farms, mines, factories)

Question 2

Why is the Yalta Conference important in terms of the Cold War?

Answer 2

Stalin made numerous promises that he didn’t keep

Question 3

Why was the UN founded?

Answer 3

FDR believed that a new international political organization could prevent another world war

Question 4

When was the UN founded?

Answer 4

April 1945

Question 5

How is the UN different from the League of Nations?

Answer 5

The UN held actual power

Question 6

Who are the permanent members of the UN?

Answer 6

The winners of WWII; America, Britain, France, China, Russia

Question 7

What did Stalin do at the Potsdam Conference that angered the others?

Answer 7

He refuses to acknowledge the promises he mad at Yalta

Question 8

Who was put on trial at Nuremberg?

Answer 8

24 top Nazi officials who were to be blamed for the war crimes committed in WWII

Question 9

What were the 4 charges at the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 9

Crimes against peace; war crimes; waging aggressive war; crimes against humanity

Question 10

What precedent came from the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 10

If you commit war crimes and lose the war, you will be made to pay for said crimes

Question 11

Why did Stalin not allow free elections?

Answer 11

He knew he would lose and he wanted to stay in power

Question 12

When was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

What 2 countries did the Truman Doctrine initially apply to?

Answer 13

Greece and Turkey; America gave them $400 million each to rebuild their countries

Question 14

What did the Truman Doctrine illustrate to the rest of the world?

Answer 14

The U.S. would pay any country willing to stop the spread of communism

Question 15

Who came up with the containment policy and when?

Answer 15

George Kennan; 1946

Question 16

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 16

A plan for the U.S. to rebuild Europe to help American economy and stop the spread of communism

Question 17

When was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 17

1947

Question 18

When was the National Security Act? What was the purpose?

Answer 18

1947; to protect the U.S. and streamline the government

Question 19

What was established by the National Security Act?

Answer 19

NSC; CIA; Air Force; DOD

Question 20

When was the Berlin Airlift?

Answer 20

June 1948

Question 21

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Answer 21

Stalin closed off West Berlin. To maintain the troops, America sent supplies via airlift every 3 minutes for 11 months

Question 22

Why did the U.S. agree to acknowledge Israel as a nation so quickly?

Answer 22

Truman wanted to stop the spread of communism as well as gain the Jewish vote

Question 23

When did China fall to communism?

Answer 23

1949

Question 24

Who led the revolution in China?

Answer 24

Mao

Question 25

What happened to the Nationalists in China?

Answer 25

They fled to Taiwan

Question 26

Who was Alger Hiss?

Answer 26

He was a top member of the U.S. state department that was accused of being a soviet spy

Question 27

What are “pumpkin papers”?

Answer 27

Evidence that chambers had against Hiss which he hid in a pumpkin on his farm

Question 28

What was the Hollywood 10 being accused of?

Answer 28

Spreading communism with their strong influence in the media

Question 29

What did the NSC 68 do?

Answer 29

Increased military spending budget to control communism

Question 30

When was the Korean War?

Answer 30

1950-now

Question 31

What mistake did McCarthy make at the end of the trials?

Answer 31

He accused the American military and Eisenhower of being communist

Question 32

Who were the Rosenbergs?

Answer 32

Americans accused of being communists and releasing atomic information to Russia; they were executed by electric chair

Question 33

What does NATO stand for?

Answer 33

North Atlantic Treaty Organization