Unit 8 Significant Slideshow Items

Question 1

Which Wisconsin senator is responsible for the second red scare?

Answer 1

Joseph McCarthy

Question 2

What communist alliance did USSR lead against NATO?

Answer 2

Warsaw Pact

Question 3

What is NATO?

Answer 3

North Atlantic treaty organization; defended democratic Western Europe

Question 4

What is the CIA?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What was the Crucible inspired by?

Answer 5

Salem witch trials

Question 6

Korean War

Answer 6

Communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea

Question 7

38th parallel

Answer 7

Border between north and South Korea

Question 8

Eisenhower doctrine

Answer 8

Stopped communism from spreading into the Middle East

Question 9

National highway act

Answer 9

Construction of interstate system

Question 10

U2 incident

Answer 10

Spy plane caught and shot over Soviet Union

Question 11

Domino theory

Answer 11

If one country falls, more will follow

Question 12

Who was John Foster Dulles?

Answer 12

Secretary of State who made up brinkmanship

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Security council

Question 14

Who came up with “containment”

Answer 14

George Kennan

Question 15

Marshall plan

Answer 15

Provided economic aid that helped rebuild postwar Europe

Question 16

Most famous suburbia

Answer 16

Levittown

Question 17

What did the UN replace?

Answer 17

League of Nations

Question 18

What signaled the end of isolationism?

Answer 18

America joining the United Nations

Question 19

What was the iron curtain?

Answer 19

Boundary begween Soviet controlled Eastern European nations and democratic Western Europe

Question 20

Truman doctrine

Answer 20

Speech about military and economic aid to falling nations

Question 21

Tuskegee airmen

Answer 21

Group of famous black fighter pilots

Question 22

“Big three”

Answer 22

FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

Question 23

Battle of midway

Answer 23

Turning point; US victory that halted Japanese expansion

Question 24

Island hopping

Answer 24

Attaching strategic islands en route to Japan

Question 25

Manhattan project

Answer 25

Developed first atomic bomb

Question 26

Casablanca conference

Answer 26

FDR and Churchill decided on Sicily

Question 27

Yalta

Answer 27

Dealt with postwar occupation and partition of Germany

Question 28

What were the two cities the United States bombed?

Answer 28

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 29

Blamed US entry into WWII in greedy bankers

Answer 29

Nye commission

Question 30

Date that Nazis invaded Poland

Answer 30

September 1, 1939

Question 31

Date of Pearl Harbor

Answer 31

December 7, 1941

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Lend lease act

Question 33

Case that upheld Japanese American internment camps

Answer 33

Korematsu v United States

Question 34

Conference that agreed upon appeasement after hitler claimed Sudentenland

Answer 34

Munich conference

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Good neighbor policy

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Fascism

Question 37

Speech by FDR that compromised neutrality and isolationism in America

Answer 37

Quarantine speech

Question 38

Dress rehearsal for WWII

Answer 38

Spanish civil war

Question 39

Which two countries signed the nonaggression act

Answer 39

Germany and USSR

Question 40

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

Answer 40

National defense education act