US 2 Quest Friday

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

UN peacekeeping goals were primarily limited

Question 2

Iron Curtain

Answer 2

separates free and communist states

Question 3

satellite nations

Answer 3

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania

• these were nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of the soviet union

Question 4

containment

Answer 4

geographical foreign policy used by the US during the Cold war to prevent the spread of communism after the end of WW2

Question 5

Who was George F Kennan?

Answer 5

he was a foreign policy officer ; created “containment” method

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

Truman established that the US would support and provide assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian threats

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, supported the development of stable democratic governments in western europe

Question 8

berlin airlift

Answer 8

airlifting food and fuel from allied airbases in western Germany

Question 9

NATO

Answer 9

made to safeguard the allies freedom and security by political and military means

Question 10

Warsaw pact??

Answer 10

collective defense treaty established by the soviet union and several other satellite states in central and eastern Europe

Question 11

1949 - soviets and the atomic bomb

Answer 11

the soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device

Question 12

1949 - china communist

Answer 12

china becomes communist

Question 13

Mao Zedong

Answer 13

declared the creation of the people’s republic of china in 1949

Question 14

Chiang Kai-Shek

Answer 14

Chinese politician, and military leader of the republic of china

Question 15

Red Scare at Home

Answer 15

China turning communist made everyone in the US afraid

Question 16

HUAC

Answer 16

invented to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebellious activities on the part of citizens suspected of being a communist - if suspected communist, you would be tried in a court of law

Question 17

Hollywood ten

Answer 17

group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the second red scare era

Question 18

Alger Hiss

Answer 18

American government official accused of having spied for the soviet union in the 1930’s. He helped create the UN in the aftermath of WW2

Question 19

Richard Nixon

Answer 19

focused on reducing the dangers of the cold war among the soviet union and china

Question 20

Ethal and Julius Rosenburg

Answer 20

married couple who were convicted of spying for the soviet union , including top secret information about nuclear weapon designs

Question 21

Dr. Jonas Salk

Answer 21

American medical researcher who developed first successful polio vaccine

Question 22

Senator Joe McCarthy

Answer 22

launched HAUC - made claims that spies were in the US federal government

Question 23

Mcarthyism

Answer 23

the political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence

Question 24

Korean War

Answer 24

north Korea, supported by the Soviet Union, invaded the south in 1950, which was supported by the US
- 3 year war was very bloody and led to the deaths of more than 3 million

Question 25

General Douglass Macarthur

Answer 25

American military leader who served in WW1, WW2, and the korean war

Question 26

Hydrogen Bomb

Answer 26

world’s first thermonuclear test, code name was mike, carried out by the US in the Marshall islands

Question 27

Cold war on the homefront

Question 28

suburbia - Levitown

Answer 28

post war suburb

Question 29

Baby boom

Answer 29

3.9 million were born in 1952

Question 30

television

Answer 30

at the end of WW2, US went from 20% to 90% of people that had televisions

Question 31

Elvis

Answer 31

single-handedly changed the course of music and culture in the 1950’s

Question 32

Women in the 1950’s

Answer 32

womens rights were minimal

Question 33

Race 1950’s

Answer 33

segregated schools, bathrooms, etc.m