Cold War Conflicts - Chapter 26

Question 1

Peacekeeping body of nations

Answer 1

United Nations (UN)

Question 2

Country dominated by the Soviet Union

Answer 2

Satellite Nation

Question 3

Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations

Answer 3

Containment

Question 4

The division of Europe between free and communist countries

Answer 4

Iron curtain

Question 5

State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action

Answer 5

Cold War

Question 6

U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover

Answer 6

Truman Doctrine

Question 7

Program under which the United States gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe

Answer 7

Marshall Plan

Question 8

Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948

Answer 8

Berlin Airlift

Question 9

Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations

Answer 9

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 10

Leader of the Nationalist forces in China

Answer 10

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 11

Leader of the Communist forces in China

Answer 11

Mao Zedong

Question 12

Island off the coast of China

Answer 12

Taiwan

Question 13

Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude

Answer 13

38th Parallel

Question 14

War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950

Answer 14

Korean War

Question 15

House Committee on Un-American Activities

Answer 15

HUAC

Question 16

People called before HUAC who did not cooperate

Answer 16

Hollywood Ten

Question 17

List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC

Answer 17

Blacklist

Question 18

Former State Department official

Answer 18

Alger Hiss

Question 19

Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies

Answer 19

Ethel and Julius

Question 20

Republican Senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government

Answer 20

Joseph McCarthy

Question 21

Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence

Answer 21

McCarthyism

Question 22

Hydrogen bomb

Answer 22

H-bomb

Question 23

President of the United States

Answer 23

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 24

Secretary of state

Answer 24

John Foster Dulles

Question 25

Willingness to go to the edge, or brink, of war

Answer 25

Brinkmanship

Question 26

Intelligence-gathering, or spy, agency of the United States

Answer 26

CIA

Question 27

Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations

Answer 27

Warsaw Pact

Question 28

Policy of the United States that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country

Answer 28

Eisenhower Doctrine

Question 29

Soviet leader

Answer 29

Nikita Khruschev

Question 30

Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane

Answer 30

Francis Gary Powers

Question 31

Downing of a U.S. spy plane and the capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960

Answer 31

U-2 Incident