Truman Era
What is the Truman Doctrine
Sending money to Greece and Turkey in order to stop them from becoming communist countries.
What military organization did Ike create in the Pacific?
SEATO. South East Asia Treaty Organization
How did the Rosenbergs die?
The electric chair
What Parallel did the war start at?
38th parallel
In Bridge of Spies, why are the kids crying?
Nuclear weapons are being shown in class. Duck and Cover, Bert the Turtle
What is Containment? What is the Berlin Airlift?
The idea developed by George Kennan, to stop communism from spreading using whatever means possible. The first showdown of the Cold war, Stalin cut off Berlin so Truman airlifted in supplies. The PR nightmare for Stalin.
What does M.A.D stand for? What is Brinkmanship?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What is Sputnik? What organization was created because of it?
The Soviets and the worlds first satellite. NASA
Why was MacArthur fired?
wanting to nuke China, and for insubordination.
In Guilty by Suspicion who are the Hollywood Ten?
The group of filmmakers arrested for being communists.
What is the name of Stalin's Prisons? What is the Iron Curtain? Triple if you can name who came up with the name of the Iron Curtain.
Gulags, The Soviet satellite nations.
What technology was developed thanks to nuclear weapons?
The Microwave
Water polo at the Olympics
How did the Korean War end?
in an Armistice, we are still at war.
What is the full name of the committee in Guilty By Suspicion?
House on Un-American Activites Committee
HUAC
What was the Marshall Plan?
Sending money to all western European countries to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Military Industrial Complex?
The government spends money on the military, industry makes weapons sells them to the military for profit. The military keeps buying, Congress spends money on new technology the military does not need, in order to create jobs in their home state.
What sports did the US compete against the Soviets?
Hockey, boxing, chess, water polo
Minus 100 points to whoever picked me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is the current leader of North Korea?
Kim Jung Un
What are Loyalty Oaths?
An oath of Loyalty that teachers had to sign in order to teach.
What is the Smith Act?
Illegal to teach the violent overthrow of the US Federal Government.
In the 1950s, what countries did the CIA create a coup in? What country did we not help? Why not?
Iran, Guatemala
Hungary
For fear that it would start world war 3
Name all of the spies that we covered in class?
Who turned in Alger Hiss?
Klaus Fuchs (from notes)
Rosenbergs, Julius, and Ethel
Alger Hiss
-Whittaker Chambers former spy for USSR
What countries make up the UN security council?
Russia, China, United States, Great Britain and France
What was the coin that was used to conceal the message in a bridge of spies? What was the U2 Crisis? Why was it important?
A nickel, A crisis in which the US U2 plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, the air force pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down. The US denied it but, when powers were put on trial, and the aircraft was produced it was a big embarrassment for the US.