APUSH Early Cold War - Truman Years,1945 - 1952

Question 1

U.S. program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). (USSR refused)

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Marshall Plan

Question 2

Conflict between the US & USSR. No direct confrontation but deadly threats went on for years.

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Cold War

Question 3

Levittown is most closely associated with which of the following

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The mass production of affordable suburban housing

Question 4

Russian satellite sent into orbit on a rocket and was brought back safely to the USSR

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Sputnik

Question 5

Truman called his domestic program for health care, education, civil rights & public housing

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The Fair Deal

Question 6

Conflict between N. Korea and Non-Communist S. Korea. The U.N. (mainly U.S.) helped South Korea

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Korean War

Question 7

Truman's policy of providing economic & military aid to any country threatened by communism

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Truman Doctrine

Question 8

Competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

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Arms Race

Question 9

Airlift in that supplied food & fuel to citizens of City that Russians closed off access

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Berlin Ailift

Question 10

Led the British during World War II known for his "iron curtain" speech;

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Winston Churchill

Question 11

Best explains dramatic increase in home ownership after WWII

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Mortgages had low rates, government insured & tax deductible

Question 12

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

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Harry S. Truman

Question 13

Churchill described the divide in postwar Europe b/w communist & democratic nations as

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Iron Curtain

Question 14

United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists

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Joseph McCarthy

Question 15

Alliance between US, England, & Western European countries

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NATO

Question 16

Line of latitude that separated North and South Korea

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38th

Question 17

U.S first gave aid to these two countries in order to help defeat communist insurgencies

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Greece & Turkey

Question 18

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

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Containment

Question 19

In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia led

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Truman to encourage the rapideconomic growth of Japan

Question 20

Military alliance, between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations

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Warsaw Pact

Questions 20