1. Support for the creation of an international peacekeeping organization came from what?
Yalta Conference
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6. Containment is a Cold War policy of?
Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world
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11. The Warsaw Pact is?
A treaty between communist countries with the goal to maintain peace
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16. What did Douglas MacArthur want to do during the Korean War?
He wanted to invade China and use atomic weapons to win the war
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21. McCarthyism is a time when?
Senator McCarthy produced a list of 57 names who he claimed were communist, but he had no concrete evidence
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2. What was the Nuremberg Trials of 1945?
A military tribunal for high ranking Nazis for Crimes against humanity
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7. The idea of the Truman Doctrine is?
To provide aide to help foreign countries to fight communism
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12. The G.I Bill of Rights did what?
Guaranteed loans for veterans to go to college, buy a house or open business
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17. America was about to win the Korean War until this happened…
China suddenly sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the border
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22. The Hydrogen Bomb…
a. Was 2,500 times more powerful than an atomic bomb
b. Vaporized Bikini Atoll (an island in the Pacific Ocean)
c. Is necessary for ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles)
d. All the above
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3. The United Nations is?
An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts
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8. The Marshall Plan helped do what?
It helped rebuild western Europe after World War II.
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13. What did Truman’s Fair Deal do?
Higher minimum wage and expanded social security benefits
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18. Why is it considered very bad when MacArthur publicly criticized the president?
Because soldiers serve our country, they don’t rule it
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23. What Arms race is a period when?
When the Soviet Union and the USA built thousands of ICBMs
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4. The Iron Curtain is?
A series of communist satellite states create by Stalin
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9. An example of a Proxy War is?
a. The Korean War
b. The Vietnam War
c. The Civil War currently going on in Syria
d. All of the above
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14. Eleanor Roosevelt did what?
a. Acted as the President’s “eyes and ears”
b. Promoted human rights and equal rights for women and minorities
c. Changed the role of First lady by acting as a public figure
d. All the above
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19. The Korean War…
Never officially ended but only had a cease-fire
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24. What did MAD mean during the Cold War?
Mutually Assured Destruction
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5. The Cold War is.
A phrase used to describe the struggles and conflicts for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union
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10. NATO is a.
A group of democratic nations that have promised to defend each other if attacked
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15. The Korean War started when?
North Koreans stormed across the 38th parallel to invade South Korea in 1950
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20. During the Red Scare...
Communist sympathizers were blacklisted, meaning they were denied work and often harassed
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25. What was Sputnik?
The world’s first artificial satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union