Unit XIV Review Sheet
1. What defense alliance did the U.S. join after World War II to protect European
democracy?
NATO
2. What organization could be defined as an international peacekeeping organization of
180 countries?
UNITED NATIONS
3. What major population shift occurred in the U.S. during and after World War II?
WEST AND SOUTH (SUNBELT)
4. What program was a massive economic recovery plan for Europe after World War II?
MARSHALL PLAN
5. What program was designed to provide aid to Greece and Turkey to stop communism?
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
6. What foreign policy was adopted by the U.S. after World War II?
CONTAINMENT
7.Why were more schools needed during the 1950’s?
BABY BOOM
8. At what conference did Allied leaders divide Germany into four sections?
POTSDAM
9. What law provided college tuition for World War II veterans?
SERVICEMAN’S READJUSTMENT ACT – GI BILL
10. What law provided financial assistance to veterans who wanted to buy a house or
starta business?
GI BILL
11. Cuban exiles, secretly trained by the C. I. A. and supplied by the U. S. government,
attempted to invade the island and overthrow Castro's Communist government there
was called ?
BAY OF PIGS
12. The removal of General Douglas MacArthur from command of the United StatesUnited Nations forces during the Korean War exemplifies the constitutional principle
of?:
CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY
13. During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War
II, the United States?:
continued to support Chiang Kai-Shek with money and weapons even when it became
clear his cause was lost
14. This regional organization, created in 1951, promoted the economic development of
Latin America and cooperation between the U. S. and its Latin American neighbors?
OAS
15.A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European Communist
satellites was called?
WARSAW PACT
16. What was the result of the San Francisco conference?
CREATION OF THE UN
17 This U. S.-Soviet agreement called for the end of atmospheric testing of nuclear
device
NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY
18.. Which Cold War event involve the city of Berlin being blockaded?
Berlin Airlift
19. Which of the following resulted from servicemen returning home from World
War II?
baby boom, GI Bill, Housing shortage
20. What did the Taft-Hartley Act do?
It outlaw all closed union shops
21. President Kennedy's main goal in the United States' 1962 decision to blockade Cuba was
to?
Force the Soviet Union to remove its missiles from Cuba
22. In 1960 which of the following contributed most directly to Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev's cancellation of a scheduled summit meeting with President Dwight D.
Eisenhower?
THE DOWNING OF AN AMERICAN U-2 SPY PLANE OVER THE SOVIET UNION.
23.The program of economic aid to Latin American countries initiated by President
Kennedy to build on the good will established by FDR's Good Neighbor Policy.
ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS
24. What term was used to describe the separation of the Communist nations of Eastern
Europe from the West? IRON CURTAIN
25. . Two countries were the Central Intelligence Agencies was used to achieve the goals
of the US during the Cold War during the 1950’s?
IRAN AND GUATEMALA
26. Was an enduring symbol of the cold war that divide the city in Germany?
BERLIN WALL
27. What country was develop in 1948 as a result of the Holocaust?
ISREAL
28. What weapon was consider at least 100 times more powerful then the Atomic
Bomb? Hydrogen
29. Who was the US President during the Cuban Missiles Crisis?
John Kennedy
30 Which Cold War Program propose Economic and Military aid to those countries with
anti-communist governments in the Middle East?
Eisenhower Doctrine
31.Who was the lead of the Cuban rebellion in 1959 that was responsible for
establishing a communist government in Cuba?
FIDEL CASTRO
32. What marked the end to the fighting with Japan during WWII?
V-J Day
33. What organization with in the United Nations has the authority to send troops to
different countries? (It has five permanent members USA, RUSSIA, CHINA, GREAT
BRITAIN AND FRANCE) Security Council
34. One group of society that benefit form the Post war economic boom following World
War II were the?
MIDDLE CLASS
35. The treaty, signed by representatives of the United States, Australia, Britain,
France, New Zealand , Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand, provided for
collective action against aggression in 1954 was ?
SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
36. What generalization could be made from the following sequence:
Nuclear Energy – Atomic bomb – Electricity
War technology was converted to peaceful uses
37. What technology did not exist before World War II?
Atomic bomb
38. What 1957 event proved that Soviet technology was equal to American
technology?
Launching of Sputnik
39. What population trend occurred during the 1970’s?
Into “sunbelt” states
40. What program received financial support from the federal government in the
1950’s?
Highway construction
41. What 1950’s group was critical of American materialism?
Beatniks
42. What did The SALT I Agreement do?
limited the antiballistic missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union
43. Who was the former advisor to FDR who was accused of providing the Soviets with
classified documents was?
Alleger Hiss
44. As chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Joseph
McCarthy did what? Accused innounce Americans of being communists
45. . Who were husband and wife who were convicted for selling atomic secrets to
the Soviets and were executed in 1953?
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
46. What group did the House Committee Un-American Activities resulted in the
blacklisting ?
The Hollywood Ten
47.What did some Americans do in the 1950 do about the threat of Nuclear War?
Build fall out Shelters and practice Duck and Cover
48. What area experienced the greatest growth after World War II?
Suburbs
49. How did workers respond to a shorter work-week during the 1950’s?
They participated in recreational activities
50. Which terms match the antisocial groups of the 50’s and 60’s?
Hippies, beatniks, “drop out”
51.. Who was the symbol of the rock and roll era of the 1950’s and 1960’s?
Elvis Presley
52. Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missiles Crises ?
Fidel Castro
53.Who was the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missiles crises?
Nikita Khrushchev
54. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War?
Joseph Stalin
55. Who was the pilot of the U-2 Spy plane that the Soviet shot down in 1960?
Francis Gray Powers
56. What is the dividing point between North and South Korea?
38th parallel
57. How did President Eisenhower end the Korea War ?
He threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons
58. What book did Arthur Miller write during the Joe McCarthy Era?
The Crucible