Government Systems
Important Peeps within the Cold War
A New Red Scare and Other Stuff
Miscellaneous
Korea, Eisenhower and questions that WILL be on your test
100
A theory or social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state is called ______________.
What is communism
100
_____________ was a diplomat for the American Embassy in Moscow. He also wrote and delivered the Long- Telegram.
What is Dean Acheson
100
The HUAC stood for __________________________.
What is The House of Un-American Activities Committee
100
The ________________ went on for 11 months. Its cargo planes supplied Berliners with food, medicine and coal.
What is Berlin Airlift
100
At what point was Korea divided between the north and the south?
What is the 38th Parallel
200
Characteristic of a dictorial one-pahty state that regulates every realm of life is called a __________________ government.
What is Totalitarian
200
In China, communist forces led by _________________ had been struggling against the Nationalist government since the 1920's.
What is Mao Zedong
200
Jesse R. McCarthy targeted this particular group of people. In such, he ruined many lives.
What is celebrities/Hollywood
200
The policy of ____________ was keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic and military actions.
What is containment
200
Eisenhower felt that the best way to prevent expensive, small wars from occuring was to threaten to use nuclear weapons if a communist state tried to seize territory by force. This became known as ___________________.
What is massive retaliation
300
An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained cheifly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted by cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth is called ___________.
What is capitalism
300
_________________________ was an Army General who planned and executed "The" D-Day and later became the 34th president of the United States.
What is Dwight D. Eisenhower
300
Whittaker Chambers named and accused _________________, a lawyer and diplomat who had served in the Roosevelt administration, of being a Russian spy.
What is Alger Hiss
300
George C. Marshall proposed this plan, which would give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies.
What is the Marshall Plan
300
On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched ____________, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
What is Sputnik
400
Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and excercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system is called a _____________.
What is democracy
400
President Harry S. Truman fired ________________ due to differing opinions regarding China and the Korean War.
What is Douglas MacArthur
400
After our Red Scare activity in class, we accused ______________ of being a "red" (communist).
What is Veronica
400
What was the only "hot" war within the Cold War?
What is the Korean War
400
"Just because the Soviets put one _______ in the air", was Eisenhower's response to Sputnik.
What is ball
500
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
What is Amanda
500
The _______________ were a Russian American couple executed for espionge in New York.
What is Rosenbergs
500
His tactic of damaging reputations with vague and unfounded charges became known as ______________.
What is McCarthyism
500
Name 3 of the central power alliances.
What is the Soviet Union, China, N. Korea. Answers may vary.
500
Explain to the best of your ability, the United States' involvement in Iran and Guatemala.
What is answers may vary