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VIIB: Early Cold War
Question | Answer |
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He proposed containment as a foreign policy | George Kennan |
He proposed liberation as a foreign policy | John Dulles |
President as the end of WW2 and at the start of the Cold War | Harry Truman |
President during most of the 1950s | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
General who commanded the U.N. forces in the Korean War | Douglass MacArthur |
Senator who led a communist "witch hunt" | Joseph McCarthy |
He pioneered the mass building of homes in the suburbs | William Levitt |
Beatnik. Wrote "On the Road" | Jack Kerouac |
Critical of conformity. "Wrote Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" | Sloan Wilson |
Leader of the communist revolution in China | Mao Zedong |
Leader of the Nationalist government in China | Chiang Kai-Shek |
Leader of the Communist revolution in Cuba | Fidel Castro |
Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death | Nikita Khrushchev |
He coined the term "iron curtain" | Winston Churchill |
He created the Polio Vaccine | Dr. Jonas Salk |
Overall U.S. foreign policy following WW2 | Containment |
Plan to give aid to Greece and Turkey to resist communism | Truman Doctrine |
Plan to give aid to Middle Eastern nations resisting communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
Gave $13 billion in aid to help western European nations recover | Marshall Plan |
Term described the division in Europe between democratic and communist nations | Iron Curtain |
Pres. Truman's domestic program was called this | Fair Deal *changed from:Dynamic Conservation, which was Eisenhower's doctrine* |
What the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigated | Suspected Communists |
U.S. led example of collective security | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
Legislation that weakened unions | Taft-Hartley Act |
Legislation that assisted soldiers returning home after WW2 | Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (G.I.Bill) |
Those born between 1946 and 1964 are referred to as the: | Baby Boom |
Term for attempts at lessening tensions with the U.S.S.R. | Détente |
President Eisenhower's warning of the ____, that private industry might exert influence over government to acquire defense contracts | Military-Industrial Complex |
Eisenhower's emphasis on technology and nuclear forces for defense called: | New Look |
The winner of the 1948 presidential election | Harry Truman |
Incident that spoiled détente during Eisenhower administration | U-2 Incident |