WW2/Cold War Review

Duck & Cover were drills practiced by school children throughout the 1950s and 1960s in response to...

• End of World War II

• Soviet Union testing the atomic bomb

• The formation of the Warsaw Pact

• China becoming communist

Brinkmanship can best be described as...

• Willing to go all the way to edge of war and threaten retaliation in response to any aggression

• While negotiations can be heated they are not allowed to go all the way to the brink of war.

• Engaging in total warfare with all atomic, nuclear, and conventional means at your disposal.

• A dedication to using diplomacy as well as threaten both military and economic responses to hostility.

What name was applied to the increase in population brought in the US by vaccines and healthcare, increased fertility and lower marriage ages for both sexes?

• baby boom

• infant explosion

• toddler totalinairsm

• kid kerplunk

What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?

• Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz

• Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare

• Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor

• Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl

What foreign policy guided American presidents during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism?

• Open Door Policy

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Policy

• Containment

What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Big Stick Policy

What individual/group contributed to the Red Scare and accused American citizens of being communists?

• Martin Luther King & Black Panthers

• Jane Addams & Settlement Houses

• Joseph McCarthy & HUAC

• Cesar Chavez & United Farmworkers Union

What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?

• It started the space race.

• U.S. began to invest more money into math & science education.

• The U.S. started NASA.

• All of the above

During what event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict?

• Berlin Airlift

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

How did the G.I. Bill contribute to the economic prosperity of the 1950s?

• It decreased consumer spending.

• It allowed Veterans to get an education and buy homes in suburbs.

• It offered incentives under the Bracero Program to temporary laborers.

• It created federal domestic programs as part of the Great Society.