Cold War in the 1950s

The ___ was a period during the Cold War where the American public was terrified of Communists and the spread of Communism.

• Scorched Earth

• Blue Scare

• Red Scare

• N.A.T.O.

Communist nations in Eastern Europe who were on friendly terms with the Soviet Union and thought of as under the Soviet Union’s control was/were known as:

• orbital nations

• satellite nations

• NATO

• SEATO

____was an alliance developed to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; includes Great Britain, US, France, Canada, and other Western European countries.

• Warsaw Pact

• ECTO

• SEATO

• NATO

The plan offering $13 billion in aid to Western and Southern Europe to revive war-torn economies of Europe was known as the:

• Marshall Plan

• Kennedy Plan

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

The conflict between the United States and the USSR that lasted decades with no military fighting is known as the:

• Hot War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

• Cold War

___ is a systematic attempt to overthrow government by using persons secretly working from within.

• subversion

• communism

• capitalism

• inversion

This policy, established by Truman, authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their

loyalty to the American government.

• Subversion Identification Program

• McCarran Act

• Loyalty Review Program

• McCarthy Program

The U.S. foreign policy in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances was:

• Globalization

• Industrialization

• Total War

• Containment

This man rampantly accused high-profile Americans of being Communist spies. His tactics damaged reputations with vague and unfounded charges.

• Harry S. Truman

• Edward McCain

• Joseph McCarthy

• Jonathan Taylor Thomas

A vote of formal disapproval is called ____; The U.S. Senate passed this vote against Joseph McCarthy in 1954.

• appropriation

• rule of law

• filibuster

• censure