unit 11

Question 0

Marshall plan (4)

Answer 0

• also called euro recov program
• gave eco aid to post ww2 euro
• so they could rebuild their eco
• stopped the expansion of communism further west in post ww2 years

Question 1

Taft Harley act (5)

Answer 1

• pro business
• outlawed closed shops
• outlawed boycotts of companies that workers were striking
• was meant to check the growing power of unions
• prohibited the use of union dues for polit activity

Question 2

Truman doctrine (4)

Answer 2

• US govt would assist milit.
• and Eco
• free ppl of the world against foreign regimes
• first examples: Greece and Turkey

Question 3

22nd amend (3)

Answer 3

• passed during trumans presidency
• limited
• presidential service to 8 years

Question 4

iron curtain (2)

Answer 4

• soviet occupation of eastern euro

* w/ soviet puppet govt in control

Question 5

milit industrial complex (3)

Answer 5

• in his farewell speech
• Eisenhower warned of the build up of the defense industry
• and armed forces

Question 6

containment (3)

Answer 6

• am foreign policy
• George Kennan
• meant to stop further expansion of Soviet Union post ww2

Question 7

NATO (3)

Answer 7

• North Atlantic treaty Organization
• alliance mainly made up of western euro nations
• the U.S. and Canada

Question 8

Warsaw Pact (2)

Answer 8

• alliance of Soviet Union

* and their eastern euro satellite countries

Question 9

braceros (3)

Answer 9

• mexican farm workers
• encouraged to come to US
• during ww2

Question 10

Joseph McCarthy (5)

Answer 10

• senator of Wisconsin
• used the country’s fear of communism
• to gain political power
• the tactic became known as McCarthyism
• or the 2nd red scare

Question 11

huac (4)

Answer 11

• house of unamerican activities committee
• that investigated supposed communist activity in the US
• in areas such as show business
• and the fed govt

Question 12

Rosenberg trials (5)

Answer 12

• accused of selling secrets to the soviets
• put on trial for espionage
• convicted
• executed
• in a case many felt had been more about hysteria than evidence

Question 13

smith act (5)

Answer 13

• made it illegal to advocate
• or teach
• the overthrow of the govt
• by force
• or belong to an org that has this objective

Question 14

McCarran Internal Security Act (5)

Answer 14

• made it unlawful to advocate or support
• the est of a totalitarian govt
• put restrictions on those who joined communist org
• authorized the use of detention camps
• for those who were found in these activities

Question 15

John foster Dulles (2)

Answer 15

• wanted us foreign policy to be more aggressive

* massive retaliation

Question 16

seato (3)

Answer 16

• south eastern asian treaty organization
• alliance of south eastern nations
• meant to fight the spread of communism

Question 17

1956 highway act (3)

Answer 17

• during president Eisenhower’s presidency
• authorized construction
• of 42000 miles of roads
• thatd link major cities

Question 18

peace corps (5)

Answer 18

• plan devised by Kennedy
• where young men and women
• would travel abroad
• and help ppl of third world nations
• in various tasks

Question 19

alliance for progress (4)

Answer 19

• Kennedy’s foreign aid proposal
• for Latin America
• that would not only contain communism
• but also help Latin American nations economically

Question 20

bay of pigs (5)

Answer 20

• failed attempt by U.S. govt
• and Cuban exiles
• to stage a revolution in Cuba and oust Castro
• the CIA believed that a general uprising would start against Castro
• after a small band of troops gathered at Bay of Pigs

Question 21

Cuban missile crisis (5)

Answer 21

• crisis where soviet missile bases
• were found in Cuba
• which resulted in a stand off btwn us and Soviet Union
• soviets agreed to take missiles out of Cuba and detonate them
• US agreed to leave Cuba alone

Question 22

new frontier (3)

Answer 22

• kennedys domestic plan
• not v successful
• bc many of his ideas didn’t pass through congress

Question 23

warren report (2)

Answer 23

• report that laid out the details

* of the investigation of the assassination of Kennedy

Question 24

nasa (4)

Answer 24

• space program
• devised to help us
• to catch up with Soviet Union
• in space research after launch of Sputnik