Vocabulary 12 Flashcards
Question: The 3rd president of the US who led the US through the end of World War 2 and the beginning of the Cold War?
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Question: A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation?
Answer: Satellite nation
Question: A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe?
Answer: Iron Curtain
Question: The state of hostility without direct military conflict that developed between the US and the Soviet Union after World War 2?
Answer: Cold War
Question: The blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence, especially the effort of the US to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s?
Answer: Containment
Question: US agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments?
Answer: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Question: A U.S. policy announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents?
Answer: Truman Doctrine
Question: The program proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947 under which the US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War 2?
Answer: Marshall Plan
Question: A 327-day operation in which the US and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948?
Answer: Berlin Airlift
Question: A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by Western European countries, the US, and Canada?
Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Question: Leader of the Chinese Nationalist government and a strong US ally; his government was defeated by the communists in 1949?
Answer: Chiang Kai-shek
Question: Leader of the Chinese communists; he led a successful revolution, established a communist government in China in 1949?
Answer: Mao Zedong
Question: The island about 100 miles from the Chinese mainland where the US helped set up a national government in 1949?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: The line of latitude that divides North and South Korea?
Answer: 38th parallel
Question: A conflict between North Korea and South Korea lasting from 1950 to 1953, in which the US, along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans, and China fought on the side of the North Koreans?
Answer: Korean War
Question: A congressional committee created in 1938 that investigated communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following World War 2?
Answer: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Question: 10 witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with HUAC’s investigation of communist influence in Hollywood?
Answer: Hollywood Ten
Question: A list of 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged communist connections?
Answer: Blacklist
Question: Former U.S. government official accused in 1948 of participating in a communist spy ring; he denied the charges but was convicted of perjury in 1950?
Answer: Alger Hiss
Question: American couple executed for conspiracy to commit espionage; members of the Communist Party, they were accused of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union?
Answer: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Question: US senator from Wisconsin who gained national fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s by aggressively charging that communists were working in the US government; he lost support in 1954 after making baseless attacks on U.S. Army officials?
Answer: Joseph McCarthy
Question: The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being communists in the early 1950s?
Answer: McCarthyism
Question: The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb?
Answer: H-bomb
Question: Competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons?
Answer: Arms race
