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Hisotry Ch 16
Vocabulary 1
Question: Term to describe extreme, reckless charges
Answer: McCarthyism
Question: War to achieve specific goals rather than the total defeat of the enemy
Answer: limited war
Question: endless race to acquire greater numbers of more and more powerful weapons
Answer: arms race
Question: fear of communists, both outside and within the United States
Answer: Red Scare
Question: having so many weapons that both sides would be totally destroyed in an all-out war
Answer: mutually assured destruction
Vocabulary 2
Question: General in command of U.S. Forces in the Korean War
Answer: Douglas MacArthur
Question: American Diplomat who stressed the need to contain communism within its current borders
Answer: George Kennan
Question: Weaker country under the control of a stronger country
Answer: Satellite state
Question: U.S. Policy to use force to help countries in the Middle East fend off communism
Answer: Eisenhower Doctrine
Question: American man convicted and executed for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets
Answer: Julius Rosenberg
Questions 1
Question: Who first spoke of the "iron curtain"?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: One goal of the Marshall Plan was to make European countries ______________________________?
Answer: strong enough to start buying American goods
Question: In China's civil war, the United States backed
a. the Communists, led by Jiang Jieshi
b. the Communists, led by Mao Zedong
c. the Nationalists, led by Mao Zedong
d. the Nationalists, led by Jiang Jieshi
Answer: d
Question: General MacArthur chose what port city for a counterattack against North Korea?
Answer: Inchon
Question: In 1950, what event began the conflict on the Korean peninsula?
Answer: The North Korean army invaded south of the 38th parallel
Questions 2
Question: What was the one place on the globe where the Cold War was "hot" and US soldiers fought and died?
Answer: Korea
Question: What did Egyptian President Nasser do after President Eisenhower withdrew his offer to fund the Aswan Dam?
Answer: nationalized the Suez Canal
Question: What happened on September 2, 1949, that caused a sudden change in US-Soviet relations?
Answer: the Soviet Union set off an atomic bomb
Question: How did the CIA participate in the Cold War?
Answer: carrying out secret missions in other countries
Question: In 1954, why was J. Robert Oppenheimer investigated and denied future access to classified information?
Answer: He had friends and family who belonged to the Communist Party
Questions 3
Question: What was the HUAC responsible for?
Answer: holding hearings about communist ties to the entertainment industry
Question: For what were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged, convicted, and executed specifically?
Answer: passing secrets about nuclear science to the soviets.
Question: What led to Senator McCarthy's downfall?
Answer: The broadcast of the McCarthy hearings on television
Question: Where did Senator McCarthy first announce that the State Department was infested with Communists?
Answer: at a campaign rally
Question: In response to NATO, with whom did the Soviet Union form the Warsaw Pact?
Answer: Eastern European Countries