Origins of the Cold War

Question 1

What section of the UN has a member from every represented country in the world?

Answer 1

General Assembly

Question 2

What is the UN Department that is minimized to 11 members, 5 permanent and 6 temporary?

Answer 2

Security Council

Question 3

Who are the permanent members of the Security Council?

Answer 3

USA, Britain, France, Russia, China

Question 4

February 1945, FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at where? A Soviet resort on the Black Sea, to plan the postwar world

Answer 4

Yalta

Question 5

What was a key issue discussed at Yalta?

Answer 5

Poland

Question 6

What document echoed the Atlantic charter, asserting “the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live”?

Answer 6

Declaration of a Liberated Europe

Question 7

The four main allies split Germany up into what? Taking control over it totally.

Answer 7

Zones

Question 8

What was the era of confrontation and competition between nations, lasted from about 1946 to about 1990

Answer 8

The Cold War

Question 9

Soviet leaders believed that ________ was a superior economic system that would eventually replace capitalism

Answer 9

Communism

Question 10

What was the first Human Rights Treaty?

Answer 10

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Question 11

Who was the first US delegate to the UN Security Council?

Answer 11

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 12

What promoted the inherent dignity of every human being and was a commitment to end discrimination?

Answer 12

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 13

Truman was strongly….

Answer 13

Anti-Communist

Question 14

At this conference, Truman suggested the Soviets take reparations from their zone, while the Allies allowed industry to revive in the other zones

Answer 14

Potsdam Conference

Question 15

The Communist Countries of Europe came to be called what?

Answer 15

Satellite Nations

Question 16

What separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe?

Answer 16

The Iron Curtain

Question 17

What was a message, thousands of words long, explaining Kennan’s views on the Soviets?

Answer 17

The Long Telegram

Question 18

What did George Kennan propose what became basic American policy throughout the Cold War?

Answer 18

Containment

Question 19

In August 1946, Stalin demanded join control of the…

Answer 19

Dardanelles

Question 20

The Marshall Plan would give European nations American aid to Rebuild their economies. What was another name for this plan?

Answer 20

European Recovery Program

Question 21

The United States created West Germany, also known as…

Answer 21

The Federal Republic of Germany

Question 22

The Soviets created East Germany, also known as…

Answer 22

The Democratic Republic of Germany

Question 23

What began in June 1948 and continued until Spring 1949, and brought more than 2 million tons of supplies into Berlin

Answer 23

The Berlin Airlift

Question 24

What does NATO stand for?

Answer 24

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 25

NATO allowed who to rearm and join its organization?

Answer 25

West Germany

Question 26

The Soviets responded to NATO by creating a military alliance called what?

Answer 26

Warsaw Pact

Question 27

Who was the leader of Communist China?

Answer 27

Mao Zedong

Question 28

Defeated Nationalists fled to the small Island called what? It's also known as Taiwan.

Answer 28

Formosa

Question 29

Communist established what in September 1948?

Answer 29

People's Republic of China

Question 30

Where is Korea divided?

Answer 30

38th Parallel

Question 31

The American and South Korean troops were driven back into a small pocket of territory near

Answer 31

The Port of Pusan

Question 32

On September 15, 1950, MacArthur ordered a daring invasion behind enemy lines at...

Answer 32

The Port of Inchon

Question 33

MacArthur pushed the North Koreans north to where? The border of North Korea and China

Answer 33

Yalu River

Question 34

war fought with limited commitment of resources to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism

Answer 34

Limited War

Question 35

In July 1951, peace negotiations began where?

Answer 35

Panmunjom

Question 36

Who was elected President in 1952?

Answer 36

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 37

The US also formed the what?

Answer 37

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Question 38

Who did the US sign defense treaties with?

Answer 38

Japan, Taiwan, Korea

Question 39

What marked a turning point in the Cold War?

Answer 39

The Korean War

Question 40

What is the era of American fear of Communism?

Answer 40

Red Scare

Question 41

systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within

Answer 41

Subversion

Question 42

Director of the FBI?

Answer 42

J. Edgar Hoover

Question 43

What does HUAC stand for?

Answer 43

House of Un-American Activities Committee

Question 44

Head of the Screen Actors Guild?

Answer 44

Ronald Reagan

Question 45

Accused Alger Hiss of being a Communist?

Answer 45

Whittaker Chambers

Question 46

Which California Representative convinced his colleagues to continue the hearings to determine who lied?

Answer 46

Richard Nixon

Question 47

Couple that got charged for being Soviet spies?

Answer 47

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 48

What was the name of the project that cracked the Soviet code?

Answer 48

Venona

Question 49

What act required Union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not Communists?

Answer 49

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 50

Who targeted Secretary of State Dean Acheson and George C. Marshall for disloyalty

Answer 50

McCarthy

Question 51

What act made it illegal to attempt to establish a totalitarian government in the US, and required all Communist-related organizations to publish their records and register with the US attorney general

Answer 51

McCarran Act

Question 52

McCarthy’s tactic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges became known as

Answer 52

McCarthyism

Question 53

to express a formal disapproval of an action

Answer 53

Censure