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Ch.24 Cold War

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  • #58 Can the UN bring last world peace? Defend your answer.
    No, as long as sinners rule on earth, there will be no lasting world peace. Lasting peace will only come when Jesus is king.
  • #44 What waterway was improved in the 1950s by the US and Canada?
    St. Lawrence Seaway
  • #14 leader of Chinese Communists
    Mao Zedong
  • #55 What was the Marshall Plan?
    plan for rebuilding Europe after WW2
  • #10 plan for the U.S. to aid in the rebuilding of Europe
    Marshall Plan
  • #32 What group did Mao Zedong lead?
    Chinese Communists
  • #66 Who was the first person to set foot on the moon?
    Neil Armstrong
  • #2 Truman's domestic policy
    Fair Deal
  • #38 What kept East Berliners from trying to escape to West Berlin?
    armed guards at the Berlin Wall
  • #62 Who was the first American to go into space?
    Alan Shepard
  • #45 List 2 things that changed in America after WW2.
    GI Bill, soldiers got married, baby boom (supply and demand shifts), housing shortages, green revolution, Sun-belt Migration, suburbanization
  • #22 What countries were offered help by the Marshall Plan?
    All European countries, even ones under Soviet control
  • #6 Southern laws that segregated black and white people
    Jim Crow laws
  • #1 ran against Truman in 1948
    Thomas Dewey
  • #19 couple that gave atomic secrets to USSR
    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
  • #29 What was MacArthur's view of the Korean War?
    We needed "total victory". We needed to whatever it took to stop the Communist takeover of Korea, even bomb China.
  • #65 What country put the first man on the moon?
    USA!
  • #30 What was Truman's view of the Korean War and other Cold War "flareups"?
    He wanted to just contain Communism. He only wanted "limited warfare"; let North Korea stay Communist.
  • #43 turned Cuba Communist
    Fidel Castro
  • #59 How does the set up the UN restrict its power?
    Members of the General Assembly are not forced to follow all the UN's decisions. Any permanent member of the Security Council can veto a decision.
  • #28 What did the GI Bill do?
    gave veterans aid, help in finding homes and jobs, paid for college
  • #39 What crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war?
    the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • #26 What did the Taft-Hartley Act do?
    limited power of labor unions
  • #67 What space mission was the first to put a man on the moon?
    Apollo 11
  • #37 In which effective peaceful protest did MLK give his "I have a dream..." speech?
    March on Washington
  • #51 What did the 23rd Amendment do?
    gave residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote in national elections
  • #5 act that limited the power of labor unions
    Taft-Hartley Act
  • #34 What did MLK write to justify his civil disobedience (protests and not following Jim Crow laws) to local pastors?
    "Letters from Birmingham Jail"
  • #16 Communist alliance
    Warsaw Pact
  • #35 Who led the March on Washington?
    Martin Luther King Jr.
  • #25 What did "Jim Crow" laws do?
    segregated black and white people
  • #15 leader of Chinese Nationalists
    Chiang Kai-shek
  • #27 What was the Sun-Belt migration?
    A lot of Americans moved to warmer areas of the U.S. after WW2. (the South and Southwest)
  • #8 agricultural improvements after WW2
    green revolution
  • #69 What was the policy of not allowing the Soviet Union to create anymore Communist governments in other countries?
    containment
  • #57 What was the result of the Marshall Plan?
    The Soviet-controlled countries rejected help. Countries that took the aid were greatly benefited and built their countries back better than before.
  • #40 the first black leader to become famous nationally
    Martin Luther King Jr.
  • #49 What did Winston Churchill mean by the "Iron Curtain"?
    the division between free Europe and Communist Europe
  • #7 court order to stop a strike
    injunction
  • #23 What was the "green revolution"
    agricultural improvements after WW2
  • #52 What was the result of the Korean War?
    Korea was back where it was when the war began? It was divided at the 38th Parallel. North Korea was Communist, aided by the USSR and China. South Korea was fre
  • #63 Who was the first human to go into space?
    Yuri Gagarin
  • #61 What country put the first artificial satellite into orbit?
    The Soviet Union
  • #24 What does an injunction do?
    It keeps a union from going on strike or stops an ongoing strike.
  • #47 Who was the Communist dictator of Cuba?
    Fidel Castro
  • #46 What year did the Korean War start?
    1950
  • #9 tensions between Soviet Union and the U.S.
    Cold War
  • #41 Democratic presidential candidate who won the 1960 election
    John F. Kennedy
  • #18 action to overcome the Soviet blockade of Eastern Germany and Berlin
    Berlin Airlift
  • #68 Why did MLK write "Letters from Birmingham Jail"?
    justify his civil disobedience to pastors
  • #60 What was the first artificial satellite put into orbit?
    Sputnik I
  • #54 What program did JFK start to go against Communism in Latin America?
    Alliance for Progress
  • #13 Truman's policy of giving aid to anti-Communists government
    Truman Doctrine
  • #31 What was the Truman Doctrine?
    Somebody has to keep Communism from spreading. Let America give aid, money and military, to governments that are fighting Communism within their own countries.
  • #50 Which amendment gave residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote?
    23rd
  • #20 years of the Korean War
    1950-1953
  • #3 aid package for veterans
    GI Bill
  • #64 Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?
    John Glenn
  • #12 president that had the policy of "containment" with Communism
    Truman
  • #42 became leader of USSR after Stalin
    Nikita Khrushchev
  • #17 anti-Communist alliance
    NATO
  • #33 What group did Chiang Kai-shek lead?
    Chinese Nationalists
  • #53 What are the 3 parts of the UN?
    General Assembly, Security Council, and Secretariat
  • #56 Why was the Marshall Plan needed?
    Europe was devastated after WW2.
  • #48 Who was the Communist dictator of Vietnam?
    Ho Chi Minh
  • #36 What policy did the U.S. and USSR try in 1953 after Stalin died and Khrushchev became leader of the USSR?
    "peaceful coexistence"
  • #11 general who wanted total victory in Korea
    MacArthur
  • #21 phrase coined by Churchill to describe the division of Europe and Communist Europe
    the "Iron Curtain"
  • #4 movement after WW2 to warmer areas of the U.S.
    Sun Belt migration