Part 4

Question 1

Iron Curtain

Answer 1

Response to Marxist Destiny; Comes from a speech Churchill gives saying that an iron curtain has descended upon Europe; Western (capitalist) and Eastern (communist) are separated

Question 2

National Security Act

Answer 2

Reformats government to combat communism; Department of Defense, CIA and National Security Council

Question 3

National Security Council

Answer 3

Coordinate defense and foreign policy for the United States; President, VP, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State

Question 4

NSC 68

Answer 4

Americans are going to be a police force against communism; National Security Council Resolution Number 68

Question 5

Department of Defense

Answer 5

Created by the National Security Act and it combines the responsibilities of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy; Now there is one body presiding over all of the branches of the military

Question 6

CIA

Answer 6

Central Intelligence Agency; Responsible for collecting information through open and covert methods on behalf of American goals

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

ID-North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Intended to protect the West from communism; Mutual defensive military alliance; Warsaw pact was created in response to NATO

Question 8

Francis Gary Powers

Answer 8

American pilot that is shot down over the Soviet Union; US had been sending spy planes over Russia for over 3 and a half years; When this plane is shot down Eisenhower denied sending the spies but after investigation the Russians uncover enough photos and evidence to force Eisenhower to take responsibility for his actions; Right before the East-West Summit a meeting in Paris between Eisenhower and Khrushchev; Great embarrassment to US

Question 9

Fall of China

Answer 9

China falls to communism; one of the things that leads to the red scare

Question 10

Chiang Kai-Shek

Answer 10

Nationalist leader of China before they are communist (he is the one defeated)

Question 11

Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong)

Answer 11

Communist leader of China after the revolution

Question 12

Taiwan

Answer 12

Chiang Kai-Shek flees here after Mao Tse Tung takes over

Question 13

Korean War

Answer 13

Another factor leading to the red scare; North Korea Communist, South was not communist; North invades the south; The UN aids South Korea; War fought over communism; In the end it’s still divided at the 38th parallel; Demilitarization zone was established between the North and South

Question 14

Mutual Defense Pact

Answer 14

Formed by Dulles; Combines the entire noncommunist world; If you go to war we go to war with you; If someone attacks you then we’ll help you

Question 15

Sputnik

Answer 15

Russian satellite launched into space before the United States; One of the few things that Russia beats the US to

Question 16

Counterinsurgency

Answer 16

JFKs new way to fight communism; Wants to train the native forces so that they can fight their own battles; Green Barrettes are the ones doing the training; Does not work; Vietnam is an example of it’s failure

Question 17

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 17

JFK’s plan; Wants Cuban exiles to try to get Castro out of power; We train the exiles in Guatemala and arm them, then take them back to Cuba to invade; They were all soon captured or killed by the Cuban army; Totally unsuccessful

Question 18

Missile Gap

Answer 18

Kennedy’s claim that the Russians have more missiles than we do; this creates/intensifies the arms race

Question 19

Berlin Wall

Answer 19

Dividing East and West Berlin; East Berlin is communist; just to keep the people of the east in the city

Question 20

Berlin Blockade

Answer 20

Stalin sets up a blockade around West Berlin; United States airlifts in supplies to West Berlin-It’s how we beat the Berlin Blockade; The Berlin Blockade made the city a worldwide symbol to resistance to communism

Question 21

Afghanistan

Answer 21

The Russian Vietnam; Afghan anti-communist Muslim groups trying to overthrow the communist government, which was aided by Soviet troops; During this the US supports what are now terrorist groups; The enemy of my enemy is my friend-The idea of coming together for a common enemy

Question 22

Carter Doctrine

Answer 22

States that the United States is willing to go to war over the Persian Gulf; Want to protect the Persian Gulf from a Soviet invasion

Question 23

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Answer 23

Create a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers

Question 24

Mensheviks

Answer 24

Moderate Marxists, they are the ones who start the Bolshevik Revolution

Question 25

Bolsheviks

Answer 25

Led by Lenin and Trotsky, the more radical Russians who take over in the second stage of the Bolshevik Revolution