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USH Unit 7-The Cold War (1947-1960s) Voc. Quiz (#1-25)
USH Unit 7-The Cold War (1947-1960s) Voc. Quiz (#1-25)
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U.S. History Unit 7-The Cold War (1947-1960s) Vocabulary Quiz (#1-25).
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Stated that Vietnam was to become an independent nation but would be split into two parts at the 17th Parallel.
Marshall Plan
Geneva Accords
Domino Theory
Big Stick Diplomacy
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Led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War from 1953 to 1964 ("we will bury you").
Leonid Brezhnev
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
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A sustained state of political and military tension (1947-1991) between the US and USSR.
World War II
The Civil War
World War I
The Cold War
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Under him, the U.S. successfully concluded WW II, however, tensions with the USSR increased.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Richard M. Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A military treaty and association of Eastern European countries, formed in 1955 by the USSR.
NATO
GATT
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
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Created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty & subversive activities of suspected commies.
CIA
NSA
HUAC
FBI
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A policy of checking the expansion or influence of a hostile power or ideology.
combustion
containment
collapsing
coordination
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A United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.
Taft-Hartley Act
The Manhattan Project
The Nye Committe
The Warsaw Pact
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U.S. citizens convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time ofwar, and executed.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard
The Scottsboro Boys
Sacco and Vanzetti
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Airlift in 1948 supplying food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when Russia cut off access.
The Berlin Airlift
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Air Raid
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Military, political, & ideological barrier established between the Soviet bloc & western Europe
"Iron Plow"
"Iron Cushion"
"Iron Curtain"
"Steel Curtain"
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Noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists & Soviet spies in the US.
Joseph Kennedy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Smith
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U.S. diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression.
George F. Kennan
George Washington
George Wallace
George H.W. Bush
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The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.
Sputnik 1
Apollo 11
Vostok 1
Voyager 1
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It was a war between the South (US & UN aid) and North Korea (USSR & China aid--1950 to 1953).
The Velvet Revolution
The War in Afghanistan
The Vietnam War
The Korean War
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Served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.
George Marshall
Cordell Hull
Charles Evans Hughes
John Foster Dulles
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Truman's policy of providing economic & military aid to countries threatened by communism.
Monroe Doctrine
Reagan Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
Truman Doctrine
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Official motto of the United States of America (adopted as the United States' motto in 1956)
E Pluribus Unum
Carpe Diem
In God We Trust
Novos ordo seclorum
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If one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the neighbors would follow
pizza hut effect
deterrence
little caesars effect
domino theory
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American initiative to aid Europe by helping it recover economically after the end of WW II.
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Airlift
The Marshall Plan
The Space Race
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A thermonuclear weapon is a weapon design that results in a greatly increased explosive power.
nitrogen bomb
helium bomb
hydrogen bomb
neutron bomb
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The 34th President of the U.S. from 1953 until 1961, also Supreme Allied Commander in WW II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard M. Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
George F. Kennan
Harry S. Truman
Jonas E. Salk
Nikkita Khrushchev
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When a US U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960.
U-2 Spy Plane Incident
Space Race
Sputnik 1
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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An international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, & other European countries.
Warsaw Pact
European Union
NATO
SEATO
