Goal 8 Review Questions
1. What were the 2 superpowers left after WWII? How were the different?
2. What was the “Iron Curtain”? Who first talked about it?
3. What was the Marshall Plan?
4. What were “satellite nations?”
5. What was the Truman Doctrine?
6. Who were the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council? Which one stands out?
7. What was the Berlin Airlift?
8. How did the Chinese Civil War change the U.N. Security Council? What did it allow to happen?
9. What is NATO?
10. What is the Warsaw Pact?
11. What was the name of Truman’s domestic program?
12. What are Levittowns?
13. Who are the baby boomers?
14. Why did Joseph McCarthy cause hysteria in America during the 1950’s?
15. How were the 50’s an era of “conformity?”
16. What group was led by Jack Kerouac? What did that movement later lead to?
17. What was the Loyalty Program?
18. What agency was formed in the U.S. after WWII to help find potential spies living in America?
19. Who were the Rosenburgs?
20. Where was the HUAC looking for spies?
21. Who took over Cuba and made it communist?
22. What was the Korean War about?
23. What stands out about the Korean War?
24. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? What two countries are a prime example?
25. What was the name of Eisenhower’s domestic program?
26. What is the Domino Theory?
27. What is Sputnik and what did it prove to the United States?
28. What is the U-2 Incident and what did it prove to the United States?
29. Who took over in the U.S.S.R. after Stalin?