World
History
Final
Exam
Review
100

This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist

ended in stalemate

What is the Korean War?

100

US used this policy during the Cold War against communism

Containment

100
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100

Resource rich region in Northern China

MAnchuria

100
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
200
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
200

Two new weapons used during the Vietnam War

Agent orange and napalm
200
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300

What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?

protested heavily

What is the Vietnam War?

300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Korea from communism.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300

Hitler's rebuilding of the German military violated what

Treaty of Versailles

300

This plan reduced the amount of reparations Germany owed

Dawes Plan

400

George Keenan sent two documents detailing the danger of the spread of communism. What were they

Long Telegram and Article X

400

Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked.

Appeasement

400
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400

This act empowered the German government to pass laws without regard

Enabling Act

500

1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin Resoltion

500

He spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. In the end he was censored by the Senate.

Senator Joseph McCarthy

500

In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed here in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina

Gulf of Tonkin

500
This man discussed the importance of supply and demand

John Meynard Keyes

500

JFK favored this policy instead of brinkmanship

Flexible Response

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