Unit 8 Significant Slideshow Flashcards

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1
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Which Wisconsin senator is responsible for the second red scare?

A

Joseph McCarthy

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2
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What communist alliance did USSR lead against NATO?

A

Warsaw Pact

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3
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What is NATO?

A

North Atlantic treaty organization; defended democratic Western Europe

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4
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What is the CIA?

A

Central Intelligence Agency; responsible for spying on other countries (espionage)

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5
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What was the Crucible inspired by?

A

Salem witch trials

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6
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Korean War

A

Communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea

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7
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38th parallel

A

Border between north and South Korea

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8
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Eisenhower doctrine

A

Stopped communism from spreading into the Middle East

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9
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National highway act

A

Construction of interstate system

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10
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U2 incident

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Spy plane caught and shot over Soviet Union

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11
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Domino theory

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If one country falls, more will follow

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12
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Who was John Foster Dulles?

A

Secretary of State who made up brinkmanship

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13
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What was the UN subcommittee who was responsible for maintaining world peace?

A

Security council

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14
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Who came up with “containment”

A

George Kennan

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15
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Marshall plan

A

Provided economic aid that helped rebuild postwar Europe

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16
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Most famous suburbia

A

Levittown

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17
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What did the UN replace?

A

League of Nations

18
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What signaled the end of isolationism?

A

America joining the United Nations

19
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What was the iron curtain?

A

Boundary begween Soviet controlled Eastern European nations and democratic Western Europe

20
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Truman doctrine

A

Speech about military and economic aid to falling nations

21
Q

Tuskegee airmen

A

Group of famous black fighter pilots

22
Q

“Big three”

A

FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

23
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Battle of midway

A

Turning point; US victory that halted Japanese expansion

24
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Island hopping

A

Attaching strategic islands en route to Japan

25
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Manhattan project

A

Developed first atomic bomb

26
Q

Casablanca conference

A

FDR and Churchill decided on Sicily

27
Q

Yalta

A

Dealt with postwar occupation and partition of Germany

28
Q

What were the two cities the United States bombed?

A

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

29
Q

Blamed US entry into WWII in greedy bankers

A

Nye commission

30
Q

Date that Nazis invaded Poland

A

September 1, 1939

31
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Date of Pearl Harbor

A

December 7, 1941

32
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Act pushed by FDR through congress that aided Britain and ended US neutrality

A

Lend lease act

33
Q

Case that upheld Japanese American internment camps

A

Korematsu v United States

34
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Conference that agreed upon appeasement after hitler claimed Sudentenland

A

Munich conference

35
Q

FDR policy that attempted to reverse previous interventionist policy in Latin America

A

Good neighbor policy

36
Q

Use KF aggressive force to bring glory to a nation or race

A

Fascism

37
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Speech by FDR that compromised neutrality and isolationism in America

A

Quarantine speech

38
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Dress rehearsal for WWII

A

Spanish civil war

39
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Which two countries signed the nonaggression act

A

Germany and USSR

40
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What legislation was made in response to the launch of the Sputnik?

A

National defense education act