Period 8

Question 1

International Monetary Fund

Answer 1

international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world’s currencies and maintains a monetary pool

Question 2

World bank

Answer 2

an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

Question 3

Cold War

Answer 3

A war involving the US and Soviet Union, who participated in proxy wars

Question 4

Truman doctrine

Answer 4

American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.

Question 5

marshall plan

Answer 5

an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion after WW2

Question 6

Berlin Blockade

Answer 6

first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

North Atlantic treaty organization; provided security for capitalist countries

Question 8

Military industrial complex

Answer 8

a country’s military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.

Question 9

Taft- Hartley Act

Answer 9

restricts the activities and power of labor unions

Question 10

Dixiecrat

Answer 10

any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights.

Question 11

National security council

Answer 11

principal forum used by the President of the United States for consideration of national security, military matters, and foreign policy matters with senior national security advisors

Question 12

CIA

Answer 12

civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information

Question 13

House of un-American activities committee

Answer 13

investigates alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.

Question 14

McCarthyism

Answer 14

a campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54

Question 15

G I. Bill

Answer 15

provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans

Question 16

Korean War

Answer 16

First proxy war of the Cold War; 1950-53

Question 17

NSC-68

Answer 17

Top secret NSC statement advocated a large expansion in the military budget of the United States, the development of a hydrogen bomb, and increased military aid to allies of the United States

Question 18

Federal Highway Act of 1956

Answer 18

authorization of US$25 billion for the construction of the Interstate Highway System, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time.

Question 19

National defense education act

Answer 19

providing funding to United States education institutions at all levels. (Public school)

Question 20

Beat movement

Answer 20

literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era