Cold war key terms

Question 1

Executive order 9981

Answer 1

issued by Truman establishing the equality in the Armed Services for people of all race, religions, or national origins

Question 2

Iron curtain

Answer 2

an imaginary line dividing Europe between the communist side (east) and the capitalist side (west)

Question 3

The Berlin Airlift

Answer 3

US supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin to prevent it from being taken over by communists

Question 4

NATO

Answer 4

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

Question 5

The Warsaw Pact

Answer 5

An alliance supporting communism, between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Question 6

McCarthyism

Answer 6

the search for communists in America, leading to blacklisting

Question 7

Capitalism

Answer 7

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 8

Communism

Answer 8

A system of social organization where all property and actual ownership are belonged to the community (state) as a whole instead of individual people

Question 9

The Truman Doctrine (containment)

Answer 9

Stopping the spread of communism by giving financial aid and sometimes military aid as well as forming alliances.

Question 10

The Marshall Plan

Answer 10

a plan for aiding the European nations with 13 billion dollars after World War II to rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism.

Question 11

Blacklisting

Answer 11

a private list between workers of people suspected to be communists, people on the list were prevented from finding work because of untrustworthiness

Question 12

Sputnik

Answer 12

The world’s first space satellite, it was launched by the Soviet Union and made the U.S. fear Soviet dominance in technology and outer space, leading the US to create NASA

Question 13

Baby Boomers

Answer 13

the larger than expected generation in the US born between 1946 and 1964 to the families of returning soldiers and had a large impact on many things

Question 14

The GI Bill

Answer 14

law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations

Question 15

ICBM

Answer 15

intercontinental ballistic missile used to carry a nuclear bomb and is capable of travelling from one continent to another

Question 16

38th Parallel

Answer 16

Line that divided Korea - Soviet Union occupied the north and United States occupied the south, during the Cold War.

Question 17

The Federal Highway Act of 1956

Answer 17

This act, an accomplishment of the Eisenhower administration, authorized $25 billion for a ten- year project that built over 40,000 miles of interstate highways.

Question 18

Truman’s “Fair Deal”

Answer 18

extension of new deal goals; promoted full employment, higher minimum wage, greater social security, and housing assistance

Question 19

Satellite Nations

Answer 19

Communist countries in Europe dominated by the Soviet Union

Question 20

Eisenhower’s “Dynamic Conservatism”

Answer 20

he claimed to be conservative with money but liberal with people

Question 21

Brinkmanship

Answer 21

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.

Question 22

Little Rock Nine

Answer 22

Eisenhower ordered the US Army to send troops to a white school called Little Rock to protect and escort 9 black kids for the full school year

Question 23

Consumerism

Answer 23

the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.

Question 24

The second red scare

Answer 24

Widespread effort to root out Communist spies after World War II that lasted for nearly a decade. peaked during the Korean war

Question 25

The Rosenberg’s (trial)

Answer 25

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government.