Cold War Vocab Review

Question 1

Created by UN Human Rights Commission.

Accepted Answer

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 2

Ex-communist who charged that Alger Hiss had been a member of a secret communist organization.

Accepted Answer

Whitaker Chambers

Question 3

charged with passing secrets to the USSR

Accepted Answer

Alger Hiss

Question 4

Eisenhower's program to create an interstate highway system

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National Highway Act

Question 5

1945 meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. Discussed post war peace & power distribution

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Yalta Conference

Question 6

Film directors who refused to testify about past political associations; contempt of Congress

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Hollywood Ten

Question 7

Ran as Democratic candidate in 1956, lost to Eisenhower

Accepted Answer

Adlai Stevenson

Question 8

Designed to help rebuild war-battered Asia and Europe.

Accepted Answer

World Bank

Question 9

Trials in Nuremburg, GER to hold Nazi officers accountable for war crimes.

Accepted Answer

Neuremburg Trials

Question 10

Commander of Allied forces in Europe; elected President of U.S. in 1952.

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 11

36th president of the US, resigned under scandal in 1973.

Accepted Answer

Richard Nixon

Question 12

Strategy of hopping from island to island in the Pacific was used to secure islands by Japan.

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Island Hopping

Question 13

1941 document of FDR and Churchill outlining goals of post-war world.

Accepted Answer

Atlantic Charter

Question 14

Presidents Committee on Civil Rights wrote this to call for eradication of discrimination.

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To Secure These Rights

Question 15

Truman proposed a vast liberal agenda that included civil rights, health care, and education

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Fair Deal

Question 16

Made claims Communists had infiltrated US government

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Joseph McCarthy

Question 17

Barred employment for those who had been deemed "un-American."

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Blacklist

Question 18

Required organizations deemed communist to register with the Department of Justice.

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McCarran Internal Security Act

Question 19

Became president in 1945 after the sudden death of FDR

Accepted Answer

Truman

Question 20

Formed in 1945 after WWII, international organization focusing on security/war prevention

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 21

Region of US stretching from Southeast to Southwest

Accepted Answer

Sunbelt

Question 22

This marked the end of America's long tradition of avoiding entangling alliances abroad.

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 23

This war happened between 1950 and 1953 when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel

Accepted Answer

Korean War

Question 24

Designed to stabilize exchange rates by valuing other currencies in comparison to US dollars.

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IMF

Question 25

Outlawed secondary boycotts, strikes against suppliers, etc.

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Taft-Hartley Act

Question 26

Allied agreement that set the stage for US to become economic leader.

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Bretton Woods Agreement

Question 27

Designed to ease veterans back into work force and award men for service.

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GI Bill of Rights

Question 28

Soviet economic and political organization created to counter NATO

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Warsaw Pact

Question 29

created in 1938 to out Fascists; quickly became platform for denunciations of New Deal

Accepted Answer

HUAC

Question 30

Integrated Major League Baseball in 1947

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

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