U.S. Presidents
The U.S. President at the end of WW2 and the start of the Cold War.
Harry Truman
After World War II, North Korea adopted a Communist Political System. T/F
True
Where were North and South Korea divided after the Korean War?
38th Parallel
What is McCarthyism?
A) Alleging that there are Communists in the US gov and other institutions
B) Campaign to be treated with fairness and respect across the United States
C) The protesting of U.S. involvement in the Korean War
D) A theory advocating warfare between the classes and public ownership
A) Alleging that there are Communists in the US gov and other institutions
Joseph McCarthy (the father of McCarthyism) was a U.S. Senator from which state?
Wisconsin
John F. Kennedy was a member of the Democratic Party. T/F
True
What was the Red Scare?
The promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
A confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed weapons close to American shores.
Cuban Missile Crisis
A competition to build the strongest weapons is known as an ____________.
Arms Race
A politician and former intelligence officer who is the current President of Russia, a position he has held since 2012.
Vladimir Putin
After only serving for two years, this President was assassinated in Dallas Texas
John F. Kennedy
The Chinese Civil War took place between a _____ Army under Chiang kai-Shek, and a _____ Army under Mao Zedong.
A) Fascist , Anarchist
B) Nationalist , Communist
C) Anarchist , Fascist
D) Communist , Nationalist
B) Nationalist , Communist
Tensions between the Peoples Republic or China and the Republic of China in the 1950;s resulted in armed conflict over strategic islands.
Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Truman Doctrine was a policy directive that required US intervention when _______ was being threatened internationally?
Democracy
What is the name of the current President of Ukraine?
A) Sergei Bogdan
B) Volodymyr Zelenskyy
C) Vladamir Putin
D) Alexander Vladislav
B) Volodymyr Zelenskyy
An American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th President off the United States from 1953 to 1961. He received enormous support from female voters.
Dwight Eisenhower
Why did China join the Korean War?
A) They felt threatened by the closeness of the War
B) They did not participate in the Korean War
C) The United States bombed them
D) They wanted to help South Korea
A) They felt threatened by the closeness of the War
1940's American military operation to supply food and other vital goods to an area under soviet control.
Berlin Airlift
To win the Electoral College, you need a minimum of how many electoral votes?
270
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. (Hint....The Secret Speech).
Nikita Khrushchev
The 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. Impeached from office due to the Watergate Scandal.
Richard Nixon
A Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953
Joseph Stalin
Differences in thinking between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Nationalist Party led to this 22 year conflict.
Chinese Civil War
What does HUAC stand for
A) Hearings to Understand the Affects of Communism
B) Help Us Against Communism
C) Humanitarian Understanding & Action Committee
D) House Un-American Activities Committee
D) House Un-American Activities Committee
What did General MacArthur want to do in China?
Drop Nuclear Bombs
The Civil Rights Act
What are Russian Astronauts called?
Cosmonauts
A civil conflict that became a proxy war between superpowers clashing over Communism and Democracy.
The Korean War.
The dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War was called _________________.
The Iron Curtain
The first person to set foot on the Moon.
Neil Armstrong
After Nixon resigned in 1974, _________ served as President until losing in the 1976 Election to Jimmy Carter.
Gerald Ford
Detente took place between the United States and the Soviet Union tentatively in 1971, and took decisive form when President Richard Nixon was in office. What is detente, and describe one way that the United States and Soviet Union tried to ease tensions between one another
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
Nixon Meeting with Brezhnev
Salt 1 and 2
Helsinki Accords
Richard Nixon visits China
Despite the fact that the mid-1960s were a period of unprecedented prosperity and affluence for many Americans, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that the time had come for America to eliminate poverty by attacking its causes. Explain the purpose of any of the programs.
1) The Higher Education Act
2) The Head Start Program
3) The Appalachian Regional Development Act
4) The Medicare Program
5) The Voting Rights Act
6) The Economic Opportunity Act
The Head Start program provided pre-school education and nutrition.
The Higher Education Act provided federal support for education by increasing and improving resources at higher education institutions and providing financial assistance to students in postsecondary education.
The Economic Opportunity Act led the war on poverty through the actions of a variety of educational, training and employment agencies, and the Job Corps trained unemployed workers.
The Medicare program expanded Social Security to provide health insurance for the elderly.
In addition, the Appalachian Regional Development Act directed federal resources to develop one of the poorest regions of the country.
The Great Society also advanced civil rights. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 protected the rights of African Americans from race-based obstructions to voting expanding the protections against racial discrimination contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Explain the M.A.D. Theory
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
The Leader of North Korea during the Korean War.
Kim Il-sung