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AmerHisCh18
American History Chapter 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| this group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union | satelite nations |
| this action proveded vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union | Berlin Aircraft |
| Both the United States and the Soveit Union joined this organization after World War II | United Nations |
| He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece. | Harry S. Truman |
| This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the U.S. ever entered during peacetime | NATO |
| This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." | Marshall Plan |
| this term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II | Cold War |
| He beleived that the best way to avoid a third war was to create a new world order in which all nations had the right of self determination | Joseph Stalin |
| although Mao Zedong won the haerts of the Chinese peasants, he failed to win American support because he..... | was a communist |
| the failure of Chang Kai-Shek's forces in the Chinese civil war can largely be blamde on | his weak and corrupt leadership |
| who was forced to retreat to Tawaiin | the Chinese Nationalists |
| the 38th parellel became an important dividing line between | North and south Korea |
| who in the Koren war fought on the side of the communists | China |
| General Douglas McArthur argued that the Korean War | should be extended into a war against China |
| the Senate eventualy condemmed _________ for improper conduct that tended 'to bring the Senate into disrepute' | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| at various times ____ claimed to have personal knowledge of 57, 81 or 205 Communists working in hte State departmnent | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| ___ could onl be charged with perjury, not espionage, becasue too many years had passed since the spying had taken place | Alger Hiss |
| the technique of making unsupporte charges of disloyalty without regard for the basic rights of the accused was named after ____ | Setaror Joseph McCarthy |
| the ____ decided not to cooperate with the investigation into whether the American film industry had beeninfluenced by Communist | Hollywood ten |
| claiming to be persecuted for being Jewish and holding radical beleifs, ____ pleaded not guilty to the crime of espianoge | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
| in 1947, ____subpeonaed 43 witnesses from the Hollywood film industry to give testimony on whether Communists influenced the American film industry | HUAC |
| in pronouncing sentence on ____ Judge Irving Kauffman declared the crime "worse than murder" because it had put "into the hands of te Russians the A-Bomb | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
| a repuplican from wiconsin; the most famous anti communist activist | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| the attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected to be communists in the early 1950's | McCarthyanism |
| african american who was blacklisted for his views on Communism | Robeson |
| the act of spying or gaining secret information about another government or business | espionage |
| act of penetrating a group without being noticed | infiltration |
| foung guilty of epionage and put to death | ethel and julius rosenberg |
| accused of giving US documents to the Soveit Union | Alger Hiss |
| a congressional commitee that investigated communit influence inside and outside the US government | House un-american activists commitee-HUAC |
| ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUACs investigation of the communist influence in hollywood | hollywood ten |
| a list of abut 500 actors, wrtiers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywoof film because of their elldged communist connections | blacklist |
| a person who takes part in secretly planning something that is un-lawful | conspirator |
| to bad military forces in a specific area | demilitarize |
| the keader of china who was the US supported but was a corrupt leader | Chang Kai-Shek |
| overthrew Chang kai-shek | mao zedong |
| country wher chang kai-shek fled | taiwan |
| demilitarized zone that devided Norht and South Korea | 38th parellel |
| He led the nation that developed the first H-bomb | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| the satelite nations of the Soviet Union were members of this military allieance | warsaw Pact |
| this event led Khrushev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold | U-2 INcident |
| this policy was intended to defend the middle east against attack by any communist country | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| this group converts actions helpdd to topple governemnts in Iran and Quatemala | CIA |
| he told an aide "if one of these u-2's were lost when we were engaged in apparently sincere deliberations it could ruin my efectiveness" | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| as secretary of state, he propsed that the US declare its intention to use massive retaliation against any agression | john foster Dulles |
| the US policy required greater dependance on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them | brinkmanship |
| this was intended to counterbalance the Soviet Union's growing prestige in the Middle East | eisenhower doctrine |
| this U-2 pilot was convicted of espionage after his plane was shot down and he was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory | francis gary powers |
| hydrogen bomb-a thermonuclear weapon much more poweerful thatn the Atomic bomb | H-Bomb |
| was president; was a general during WWII; became president in 1952; during h-bomb research | dwight eisenhower |
| secretary of state; anti-communist; he supported brinkmanship | john foster dulles |
| the pratice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any agression | brinkamnship |
| a wall built to seperate Eastern and western blocks | iron curtain |
| the big three had a conference at potsdam in Berlin | potsdam conference |
| taking measures to prevent extension of communist rule to other countries | policy of cantaintment |
| a 327 day operation; the Us and British planes flew food and supplies into west Berlin | berlin airlift |
| a defensive military alliance; western european nationsa and US and Canada joined | NATO |
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