WorksheetsCh13/14 Early Cold War/1950s
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 27mins
Mark all that were U.S. goals after WW2.
Rebuild European economy
Economic growth by increasing world trade
Spreading democracy and capitalism in the west
NATO meets every year.
The 1st meeting between U.S. and Russia after WW2 took place here. Stalin promised to hold democratic elections in Poland but failed to do so.
Yalta Confrence
United Nations
Potsdam Confrence
Warsaw Pact
Confrontation, competition, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union from 1948-1990 was called the (a) .
This country was split into 4 zones, all controlled by different countries.
(England, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R.).
Later we combine and have West and East.
Japan
Germany
Italy
Poland
Communist countries of eastern Europe that stalin used as a buffer around the Soviet Union.
Iron Curtain
Berlin airlifts
Satellite nations
containment
Symbolic idea that there is a heavy division/separation between western and eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
Lead Wall
Metal Curtain
Iron Wall
USA's goal to keep communism at its current borders and not let it expand using any means necessary. This concept is known as
Containment
Restriction
Protection
National Security
Giving money to any country threatened by communism to strengthen military and provide jobs
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Yalta Confrence
United Nations
To help western economies recover quickly, the USA offered money to any country in Europe that wanted it (even satellite nations)
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Yalta Confrence
United Nations
USA sent cargo planes w/ airdrops to west (a) for 11 months w/ food, medical supplies, coal since Stalin blockaded city from Western countries.
After WW2 and during Cold War this organization was formed....the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, democratic countries led by USA
NATO
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
After WW2 and during Cold War this organization was formed....Soviet Union communist alliance with satellite nations
NATO
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
The "Forgotton War" is commonly refered to what war during the Cold War, lasted 1950-1953.
Vietnam War
Korean War
WW2
China War
In Asia, this country fell to communism in 1949. It was a huge suprise to the world and made Truman look bad.
Korea
China
Japan
Philippines
During the Korean War, this country was communist and backed by U.S.S.R.
North Korea
South Korea
China
Japan
During the Korean War, this country was a democracy and backed by USA.
North Korea
South Korea
China
Japan
After the Korean War, this degree of the line of latitude was set as the permanent border between North and South Korea.
(a)
War fought to achieve limited objective and don’t use full military arsenal (atomic bombs etc.) is called
war
limited war
military build-up
proxy war
When US citizens feared a communist takeover and used accusations that ruined the lives of many ordinary people
Red Scare
Cold War
McCarthyism
Loyality Review Program
This government progam screened all federal employees to see if they had communist ties
House of Un-American Activities Committee
Loyalty Review Program
Hollywood 10
Red Scare
Gov’t organization that investigates fascism and communism in America
House of Un-American Activities Committee
Loyalty Review Program
Hollywood 10
Red Scare
NY couple arrested for being communists and giving secret information to Soviet Union to make atomic weapons.
Alger Hiss
Hollywood 10
Rosenbergs
Joseph McCarthy
This man was an accused communist in our government, it led to a huge scandal, people fear communism has infiltrated USA gov’t
Alger Hiss
Hollywood 10
Rosenbergs
Joseph McCarthy
This person used the communist hysteria for his own use by making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper evidence
Alger Hiss
Rosenbergs
Joseph McCarthy
Hollywood 10
This law made it legal to arrest anyone “viewed” as a communist during a national emergency
McCarran Internal Security Act
McCarthyism
Marshall Plan
HUAC
The new H-Bomb (hydrogen) was the new weapon that led to the "Arms Race" between the US and USSR.
True
False
Have as many bombs as possible, that way you could scare the other country without actually having to use them
Arms Race
Massive Retaliation
Missle Race
Cold War
Radioactive ash after explosion of bomb
fallout
duck and cover
H-Bomb
shelter
Eisenhower's plan- threatened to use military violence if communist country tried to invade anyone by nuclear attack.
brinksmanship
Massive Retalliation
H-Bomb
Space Race
the name of the 1st satelite in space, Soviet
(a)
Willingness to go to the edge of war to force the other side to back down
brinksmanship
Massive Retalliation
H-Bomb
Space Race
This U.S. agency was formed to beat the Russians to the moon and in space.
FBI
CIA
NASA
ICBM
This U.S. agency was formed to prevent communist uprisings in other countries
FBI
CIA
NASA
ICBM
Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's Vice President gave a speech denying all illegal activities in named what famous speech?
Checkers Speech
Chess Speech
Monopoly Speech
Kelso Speech
Provided loans to veterans from WWII and Korea to boost economy and avoid a depression
GI Bill
Federal Highwat Act
Fair Deal
A person owns one and runs one or more stores of a chain operation
Franchise
Co-owner
Corporation
Laizze Faire
suit jobs, didn’t get dirty, desk jobs, indoors, needed an education, got paid more
Blue collar
White collar
Yellow collar
Red collar
physical manual labor, work with your hands on the assembly line, low skilled jobs
Blue collar
White collar
Yellow collar
Red collar
1940s-1950s increase in the birth rate
Tied to the economy, people can afford to have children
Baby Boom
Infant Explosion
Tolder Terror
Baby Bananza
LEVITTOWNS were mass produced suburban homes
For whites only
True
False
Mark the most common forms of MASS MEDIA in the 1950s.
Radio
Television
Internet
Telephones
(a) was a popular rock musician, crossed over into mainstream America, king of rock-n-roll
Cultural separation between kids and parents. Parents grew in Depression, kids in post war economic prosperity.
Generation Gap
Beatniks
Generation Loss
Boomers
This movement involved White Young teens- 20s, going against the norms of society
Beat Movement
Rock n Roll Movement
Women's Rights Movement
NASA
"Beatniks" were people who participated in the beat movement, “beaten down” by American culture, unconventional lifestyle
True
False
A figure set by the government to reflect minimum income needed to support a family
Poverty Line
White Flight
Bracero Program
Termination Policy
Took away reservation land of 107 tribes to assimilate into American society
Poverty Line
White Flight
Bracero Program
Termination Policy
Mark all that apply to the "causes" of the rise of juvenile delinquency in the 1950's society.
lack of religion
rock n roll
movies
divorces at home
no discipline at home
