Period 8 Chapter 24

Question 1

Deterrence

Answer 1

Measures that a state takes to discourage attacks by other states, often include a military buildup.
It was also based on military strength

Question 2

United Nations (UN)

Answer 2

UN) International organization established in 1945 to maintain peace among nations and foster cooperation in human rights, education, health, welfare, and trade.

Question 3

General Assembly

Answer 3

Assembly of all members of the United Nations; it debates issues but neither creates nor executes policy.

The General assembly was the weaker body with authority to only discuss issues

Question 4

Security Council

Answer 4

The executive agency of the United Nations; today it includes five permanent members with veto power (China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States) and ten members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

They were resolving issues

Question 5

CONTAINMENT

Answer 5

The U.S. policy of checking the expansion or influence of Communist nations by making strategic alliances, aiding friendly nations, and supporting weaker states in areas of conflict.

The Russian expert said that they’ll retreat if they oppose

Question 6

“Iron Curtain”

Answer 6

Name given to the military, political, and ideological barrier established between the Soviet bloc and Western Europe after World War II.

Because they were all fearful of all the Soviets intentions and it was a threat around the world

Question 7

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

Answer 7

The anti-Communist foreign policy announced by Truman called for military and economic aid to countries whose political stability was threatened by communism.

Question 8

MARSHALL PLAN

Answer 8

The program was launched in 1948 to foster economic recovery in Western Europe in the postwar period through massive amounts of U.S. financial aid.

It was also to restore stability

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

Response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 involving tens of thousands of continuous flights by American and British planes to deliver supplies.

They were able to to flow many resources across the soviet land now

Question 10

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Answer 10

(NATO) A mutual defense alliance was formed in 1949 among most of the nations of Western Europe and North America in an effort to contain communism.

Question 11

National Security Council (NSC)

Answer 11

(NSC) An executive agency was established in 1947 to coordinate the strategic and defense policies of the United States; it includes the president, vice president, and four cabinet members.

Question 12

Partition

Answer 12

To divide a country into separate autonomous nations

Question 13

Hydrogen bomb

Answer 13

Nuclear weapon of much greater destructive power than the atomic bomb and it was part of the military

Question 14

Korea

Answer 14

They were siding with American forces but after awhile they won back their side

Question 15

Police action

Answer 15

Official term used by US during Korean conflict because there for was no formal declaration of war; t the North Korean called it “the fatherland liberation war.”.

Question 16

Taiwan

Answer 16

• In 1949, Nationalist government fled to Taiwan
○ Truman refused to see the People’s Republic of China on the mainland and orderd a fleet to the water of Taiwan

Question 17

Right-to-work laws

Answer 17

banned compulsory union membership and provided legal and police protection for workers

Question 18

Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 18

which banned closed shop and prevented industry-wide collective bargaining and legalized state-sponsored right-to-work that hindered union organizing

Question 19

Dixiecrat Party

Answer 19

a States’ Rights Democratic Party

Question 20

Fair Deal

Answer 20

Truman’s new domestic program like the New Deal

Question 21

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Answer 21

congressional committee that investigated suspected communists during the McCarthy era

Question 22

Richard M. Nixon

Answer 22

national recognition as a member of HUAC through his investigation al alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss; elected vice president in 1952 and president in 1968
§ He denied that he was a communist
○ Hiss was found guilty for perjury because he took micro movies and was interrogating the wrong people

Question 23

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 23

accused of being part of the soviet atomic spy ring
• Rosenberg’s passed to the Soviets was largely responsible for the successful Soviet atomic bomb
○ They were convicted of espionage but professed innocence
○ Ethel was guilty for being loyal to him

Question 24

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 24

Republican senator from Wisconsin who in 1950 began a Communist witch hunt that lasted until his censure by the Senate in 1954; McCarthyism is a term associated with attacks on liberals and others, often based on unsupported assertions and carried out without regard for basic liberties.

Question 25

Baby Boom

Answer 25

Sudden increase in the birth rate that occurred in the United States after World War II and lasted until roughly 1964.