Lesson 2: "War in Korea and a New Red Scare"

Question 1

Mao Zedong

Answer 1

Communist leader of China October 1, 1949

Question 2

38th Parallel

Answer 2

Divides North and South Korea

Question 3

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 3

~Executed June 19, 1953
~Killed by electric chair
~Accused of sending a spy ring to the Soviet Union that contained information about the atomic bomb

Question 4

Arms Race

Answer 4

United States and Russia competed to build more nuclear weapons

Question 5

Sputnik

Answer 5

Soviets launched first satellite October 1957; first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball 22.8 inches in diameter, weighed only 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path

Question 6

Brinkmanship

Answer 6

Willing to go to the brink of war to fight Communism

Question 7

Red Scare

Answer 7

People in America were afraid of communists in the 1940’s-1950’s

Question 8

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 8

Believed Communists were working in the State Department

Question 9

McCarthyism

Answer 9

Accusing someone of communist activity without proof

Question 10

Hydrogen Bomb

Answer 10

Weapon more powerful than atomic bomb

Question 11

NASA

Answer 11

National Aeronautics and Space Administration; put the first man on the moon

Question 12

A crisis involving the __________ which began when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt, ended with a U.S.-Soviet agreement to condemn the invasion

Answer 12

Suez Canal