Ch. 26 Postwar America

The offer of military aid to any Middle Eastern country resisting communism was known as the

• Marshall Plan.
• Eisenhower Doctrine.
• Truman Doctrine.
• Baruch Plan.

This organization was established to gather strategic military and political information from overseas.

• FBI
• National Defense Administration
• National Security Council
• CIA

How did the US react to the launch of Sputnik?

• Americans began to pour more money into the space/arms race

• Americans threatened war against the Soviet Union

• Americans decided to calm brinkmanship policy

• Americans sought to establish an alliance with Great Britain and France

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles believed in __________, building-up military arms and remaining on the verge of war, but without actually going to war

• Brinkmanship

• Marshall Plan

• Containment

• Domino Theory

This leader took over the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.

• Lenin
• Khrushchev
• Gorbachev
• Trotsky

Leader of communist North Vietnam whose name means "he who enlightens".

• Le Duc Tho
• Ngo Dien Diem
• Ho Chi Minh
• Dien Bien Phu

In 1956, the Soviets launched _____________, the world’s first satellite into space, starting a period during the Cold War referred to as the Space Race.

• U-2 Spy Plane

• Sputnik

• John Glenn

• Neil Armstrong

Wisconsin senator who made charges of communism in government and military

• Joseph McCarthy

• Sputnik

• Mao Zedong

• Truman

rush by the United Sates and the Soviet Union to build more weapons

• arms race

• brinkmanship

• baby boom

In the 1950s, many Americans sought warmer weather by moving to the

• Pacific Northwest

• Deep South

• Midwest

• Sun Belt