Vocabulary 12

Question 1

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 1

Answer: Harry S. Truman

Question 2

Question: A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation?

Answer 2

Answer: Satellite nation

Question 3

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 3

Answer: Iron Curtain

Question 4

Question: The state of hostility without direct military conflict that developed between the US and the Soviet Union after World War 2?

Answer 4

Answer: Cold War

Question 5

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 5

Answer: Containment

Question 6

Question: US agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments?

Answer 6

Answer: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Question 7

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 7

Answer: Truman Doctrine

Question 8

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 8

Answer: Marshall Plan

Question 9

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 9

Answer: Berlin Airlift

Question 10

Question: A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by Western European countries, the US, and Canada?

Answer 10

Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 11

Question: Leader of the Chinese Nationalist government and a strong US ally; his government was defeated by the communists in 1949?

Answer 11

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek

Question 12

Question: Leader of the Chinese communists; he led a successful revolution, established a communist government in China in 1949?

Answer 12

Answer: Mao Zedong

Question 13

Question: The island about 100 miles from the Chinese mainland where the US helped set up a national government in 1949?

Answer 13

Answer: Taiwan

Question 14

Question: The line of latitude that divides North and South Korea?

Answer 14

Answer: 38th parallel

Question 15

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 15

Answer: Korean War

Question 16

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 16

Answer: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Question 17

Question: 10 witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with HUAC’s investigation of communist influence in Hollywood?

Answer 17

Answer: Hollywood Ten

Question 18

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 18

Answer: Blacklist

Question 19

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 19

Answer: Alger Hiss

Question 20

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 20

Answer: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Question 21

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 21

Answer: Joseph McCarthy

Question 22

Question: The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being communists in the early 1950s?

Answer 22

Answer: McCarthyism

Question 23

Question: The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb?

Answer 23

Answer: H-bomb

Question 24

Question: Competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons?

Answer 24

Answer: Arms race

Question 25

Question: 34th president of the US; he faced challenges in many parts of the world during the Cold War?

Answer 25

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 26

Question: A Cold War military strategy intended to discourage an actual attack by committing to launch a devastating counterattack to any attack?

Answer 26

Answer: Massive retaliation

Question 27

Question: A Cold War policy to respond to any attack with nuclear force resulting in the total destruction of both parties?

Answer 27

Answer: Mutually assured destruction

Question 28

Question: Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower; he favored building up the American nuclear arsenal as part of an effort to decrease Soviet influence around the world?

Answer 28

Answer: John Foster Dulles

Question 29

Question: The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression?

Answer 29

Answer: Brinkmanship

Question 30

Question: A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites?

Answer 30

Answer: Warsaw Pact

Question 31

Question: A US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957?

Answer 31

Answer: Eisenhower Doctrine

Question 32

Question: Leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin who thought communism could peacefully take over the world; he came into conflict with President Eisenhower during the U-2 incident?

Answer 32

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Question 33

Question: American pilot; his U-2 plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, causing an international incident?

Answer 33

Answer: Francis Gary Powers

Question 34

Question: The downing of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960?

Answer 34

Answer: U-2 incident