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Test Questions
100
Meeting of allied powers to discuss details of the joint occupation of Germany after World War II.
Postdam Conference
100
Plan that supported European economic recovery to prevent future wars.
Marshall Plan
100
Revolutionary communist leader of China.
Mao Zedong
100
A group of California film directors and writers that went to jail rather than answer the HUAC's questions.
Hollywood Ten
100
Huge family run corporations that monopolized Japan's economy.
zaibatsu
200
One of the first U.S. delegates to the United Nations, and social activist.
Eleanor Roosevelt
200
In April 1949 nine Western European nations joined the U.S., Canada, and Iceland in this military alliance.
NATO
200
Who were the individuals that were elected president and vice president in 1952?
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon.
200
These two were put to death after being accused of providing the Soviet Union with atomic energy secrets.
Juluis and Ethel Rosenberg
200
Postwar international peace organization aimed at working together for world peace.
United Nations
300
An architect of the Jewish extermination program.
Adolf Eichmann
300
U.S. policy to stop the spread of Soviet communism.
containment
300
Commander of U.N. forces in Korea.
General Douglas MacArthur
300
This technology was said to be up to 1,000 times stronger that its original.
H-bomb
300
Secretary of State who promoted European recovery by helping to secure economic aid for Western Europe.
George Marshall
400
U.S. diplomat that persuaded the Arabs and the Israelis to accept a short term cease-fire agreement.
Ralph Bunche
400
The competition for global power and influence between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Cold War
400
This policy rested on the threat of massive retaliation, including the use of nuclear weapons.
brinkmanship
400
Children in many schools were taught to do this during the Cold War.
"Duck and Cover"
400
U.S. senator who waged war on alleged communist sympathizers.
Joseph McCarthy
500
Many critics of the U.N. said it was doomed to fail mainly for this reason.
It did not have the power to enforce its own decisions.
500
This created the civilian controlled Atomic Energy Commission to oversee nuclear weapons research and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy.
Atomic Energy Act
500
Stunned political observers by publicly accusing his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, of committing many ruthless crimes.
Nikita Khrushchev
500
This spacecraft put the first living thing in space.
Sputnik II
500
This incident caused the short thaw in the Cold War to come to an abrupt halt.
U-2 Incident
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