Modern US History - Unit 3 Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

English 43 Public

Cold War, 1950s, 1960s counterculture, Vietnam

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What event was the FIRST time that President Truman took action to keep communism from spreading in Europe?

Berlin airlift

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This program undertaken during the Truman administration gave financial assistance to Western European countries to rebuild their economies after World War II.

Marshall Plan

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What is the name given to the policy that the United States would provide financial and military assistance to democratic countries in danger of communist threat?

Truman Doctrine

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The countries shaded blue in the 1955 map indicate member nations of what Cold War alliance?

NATO

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What concept is being critcized in this editorial cartoon from the early Cold War period?

McCarthyism

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Nickname given to individuals who refused to testify and answer questions from members of Congress investigating communist subversion in American society; these individuals were 'blacklisted' and their careers damaged/ruined as a result

Hollywood 10

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Name of the Congressional body that led investigations into suspected communist activity in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

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Convicted of treason and executed for providing U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

The Rosenbergs

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This individual was accused of being a spy and found guilty of perjury; later post Cold War records revealed that the individual did indeed work with the Soviet Union's spy agency.

Alger Hiss

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The launching of this object initiated the "space race" in an effort to demonstrate technological superiority during the Cold War.

Sputnik

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Identify ONE characteristic of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991.

proxy wars (ie. Korean War or Vietnam War), nuclear arms race, space race

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The shaded countries in red mark the member nations of what Cold War alliance?

Warsaw Pact

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The 38th parallel (line of latitude) became the armistice line that "ended" THIS Cold War conflict.

Korean War

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The civil war in THIS country led by Mao Zedong resulted in a communist government coming to power in 1949 and resulted in criticism that the U.S. government was too weak against communism and its efforts to spread its ideology globally.

China

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Failed CIA attempt to secretly take communist leader Fidel Castro out of power in Cuba and replace him with a pro-U.S. government is known by THIS name.

Bay of Pigs

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The peak of the Cold War and closest time the two superpowers came to direct military conflict with one another occurred during THIS event during the administration of John F. Kennedy.

Cuban Missile Crisis

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