Korean War/ Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 1

HUAC( House Un-American Activities )

Answer 1

HUAC - Investigate people to see if they were Nazis, Communists, or Fascists

Went after the movie industry as well

Blacklisted People

Hollywood 10

Question 2

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 2

Senator from Wisconsin

McCarthyism

• Second Red Scare
• Targeted anyone who was communist

Question 3

Cuban Missle Crisis Causes

Answer 3

Fidel Castro came to Power

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 4

Bay of Pigs

Answer 4

U.S invasion of Cuba of initiated by the CIA

Question 5

Satellite Nation

Answer 5

Nations that were under control by another country

Question 6

Iron Curtain?

Answer 6

The Berlin Wall to separate Eastern and Western Europe

Question 7

Trumine Doctrine?

Answer 7

Contained Communism by providing political, economic, and military aid to make sure countries did not become communist

Question 8

Cold War?

Answer 8

Political and Power War between the USSR and the U.S, involved the Space Race

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

U.S and Britain shipment of supplies to West Berlin

Question 10

What did Winston Churchill call the division of Europe and what did he mean?

Answer 10

Iron Curtain - The physical wall put between east and west Berlin

Question 11

What was the Marshall Plan and why was it instituted?

Answer 11

Opposed to the Truman Doctrine, this was to simply get the 17 European countries out of debt.

Question 12

What was the importance of the 38th Parallel?

Answer 12

Seperated both South and North Korea- Think Korean War

Question 13

How did the Korean War begin and who fought on both sides?

Answer 13

North invaded South Korea, USSR on North, U.S on South

Question 14

Who was the US commander in charge of driving back North Korea? What happened to him?

Answer 14

MacArthur was the original US commander, he was fired.

Question 15

Name two effects of the Korean War.

Answer 15

New Borders were drawn and over 5 million were killed

Question 16

Brinkmanship?

Answer 16

in the Cold War, brinkmanship meant using nuclear weapons as a deterrent to communist expansion around the world.

Question 17

What was the belief of the domino theory?

Answer 17

suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos.