Causes of the Cold War
American Society
Truman
Eisenhower
Containment
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What was determined by the Allies at the Yalta Conference?
A post-war plan for the world
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The fear of the atomic bomb influenced many Americans to...
build bomb shelters
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What did Truman change regarding blacks in the military?
He ordered that the military be desegregated
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To prevent Communist revolutions in other countries, Eisenhower decided to use covert, or hidden, operations conducted by the...
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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According to Truman, what two documents were essential for containment?
the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
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What was the "iron curtain" a symbol of?
It separates the Communist dominated countries of Eastern Europe from the Western democracies
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About 85 percent of new home construction in the 1950s was found in...
the suburbs
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How did Truman describe the US and its allies?
free institutions, representative government, free elections, and guaranteed individual liberty
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Eisenhower's overall impression of Germany's freeway system inspired him to do what?
to make extraordinary changed in the United States
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The Korean War resulted in...
containment but no victory
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What was the view of the Soviets at the Potsdam Conference?
Germany must make reparations
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Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his witch hunt by...
saying that he had a list of Communists employed by the State Department
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What did the Truman Doctrine do?
it helped weaken nations defying Communism economically
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What was Eisenhower's famous saying?
"More Bang for the Buck"
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What was Kennan's Long Telegram?
it recognized the Soviet Union's economic and political weaknesses and gave rise to the policy of containment
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What were the communist countries of Eastern Europe called?
the satellite nations
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What were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were charged with?
passing atomic secrets to the Soviets
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In 1947 the conservative Congress set out to limit the power of organized labor by passing what?
Taft-Hartley Act
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What is brinkmanship?
the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down
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How did the Soviet Union respond to the merging of the United States, Britain, and France zones?
by blocking West Berlin
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The four zones of Germany were controlled by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and what other country?
France
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After World War 2, labor unrest was triggered by...
rising inflation
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President Truman ended the miners' strike by ordering government seizure of the mines while...
pressuring owners to grant most union demands
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What is massive retaliation?
threatening to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force
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What countries blamed European imperialism and American capitalism for their problems?
developing nations
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