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Ch. 25/26 Final Exam Review Game - The Cold War Begins/Eisenhower Years
Ch. 25/26 Final Exam Review Game - The Cold War Begins/Eisenhower Years
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Famous containment policy that gave aid to Greece and Turkey
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan
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Peacekeeping organization created in 1945 focused on upholding human rights
World Bank
IMF
United Nations
3
Medical hero of the 1950s with his polio vaccine
Dr. Phil
Dr. Jonas Salk
Dr. Benjamin Spock
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What was the major method of advertising by 1960?
TV
Magazine
Radio
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Soviet military alliance with pro-Soviet nations that was created in 1955
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
NATO
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Policy of overwhelming force (nuclear war) against the Soviets to settle a serious conflict
Eisenhower Doctrine
Massive Retaliation
Containment
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Aid program to rebuild the economies of Europe and contain communism
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan
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Using fear and making accusations without evidence all in the name offighting communism
Massive Retaliation
McCarthyism
Diplomacy
Containment
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U.S.president that ended the Korean War
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
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Congressional committee that investigated Communist influence in the U.S. during the Red Scare
Foreign Relations Committee
HUAC
McCarthy's Raiders
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Military Alliance of Western nations opposed to the Soviets
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
Triple Entente
NATO
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Vice presidential running mate for Eisenhower in 1952 that gave the “Checkers Speech” on TV
Adlai Stevenson
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Famous rock and roll musician that represented the rebellion of young people in the 1950s
James Dean
Elvis Presley
Bob Dylan
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Effortto ease the transition for veterans returning to civilian life after WWII
Truman Doctrine
GI Bill
Marshall Plan
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Leader of the Communists during the Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Syngman Rhee
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Government official charged with being a Communist spy…later convicted of perjury
Alger Hiss
Julius Rosenberg
Whittiker Chambers
Joseph McCarthy
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Truman’s Executive Order 9981 achieved what civil rights gain?
Desegregated schools
Desegregated lunch counters
Desegregated the military
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Agency created by the U.S. shortly after the launch of Sputnik
NASA
FCDA
CIA
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Name for the division of Europe into East and West
38th Parallel
Truman Doctrine
Iron Curtain
NATO
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Nation that came to the aid of North Korea by sending over 260,000 troops into the war
Soviet Union
China
U.S.
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George Kennan suggested the U.S. use what foreign policy to fight communism?
Isolationism
Atomic Bombing
Containment
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Name of Truman’s plan for the U.S. following his reelection in 1948
New Deal
Fair Deal
Square Deal
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President Truman asked this group to approve military action to support South Korea in 1950
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
NATO
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Group of directors and writers that went to prison for failing to cooperateduring HUAC hearings
Motion Picture Association
Lost Generation Writers
Yellow Journalists
Hollywood Ten
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Husband and wife convicted and executed for giving atomic secrets to the Soviets
Marshall's
Rosenbergs
Hiss's
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President that made the decision to develop the hydrogen bomb
Kennedy
Truman
Eisenhower
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Country that supplied the North Koreans with weapons during the Korean War
South Korea
Soviet Union
United States
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Created in 1947 to collect information, spy on foreign governments, andcarry out secret actions
SEATO
NASA
HUAC
CIA
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1st satellite launched into orbit around Earth
Sputnik
Explorer I
Apollo
NASA
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U.S.and British effort to fly in food and supplies to West Berlin during the Soviet blockade
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan
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Wisconsin senator who gained power by hunting for Communists in the 1950s
Joseph McCarthy
Thomas Dewey
Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
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What was North Korea’s goal when it invaded South Korea in 1950 starting the KoreanWar
They did not invade
Reunite under democracy
Reunite under communism
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Eisenhower supported this massive construction project that was approved by Congress in 1956
SDI
NASA
Fair Deal
Interstate Highway System
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President that warned the U.S. about the growing military-industrial complex in 1961
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
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Controversial decision Truman made during the Korean War thataffected war leadership
Fired Eisenhower
Fired MacArthur
Promoted himself to general
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Who won a surprise victory in the 1948 presidential election
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Thomas Dewey
Harry Truman
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U.S. did not agree with the Soviets politically and economically because the Soviets were
Anarchists
Communists
Capitalists
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The McCarran Act and the Smith Act reduced freedoms in the U.S. to combat what?
Capitalism
Communism
Terrorism
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Most famous suburban development in New York that offered affordable homes
Hollywood
Levittown
Middletown
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Competition between the U.S. and the Soviets to have a military advantage over the other nation
Arms Race
Baby Boom
Berlin Crisis
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Created by President Truman to educate and prepare the American public for nuclear emergencies
FCDA
CIA
NASA
42
The GI Bill offered veterans....
Brand new cars
Money for college
Guaranteed jobs in banks
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What Soviet leader ordered the blockade of West Berlin leading to the Berlin Airlift?
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
Stalin
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Leader of U.N. forces during the Korean War that was later fired
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
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Nation that successfully tested the atomic bomb in 1949
Soviet Union
North Korea
China
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Dividing line of Korea following WWII
38th Parallel
17th Parallel
Iron Curtain
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Secretary of State for Eisenhower who supported policy of massive retaliation
Richard Nixon
McGeorge Bundy
Henry Kissinger
John Foster Dulles
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Increase in the U.S. population that helped sustain the economy during the post-WWII era
Immigration
Bracero program
Great Migration
Baby boom
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Young congressman from California who made a name for himself during the HUAC investigations?
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
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87% of American households had one of these by 1960
TV
Radio
Bomb Shelter
