UNIT 8 TEST REVIEW
U.S. History
SSUSH 20
U.S. History
America as a World Power
Era after WWII when the U.S.
and capitalist nations
competed with communist
Russia over control of
Europe?
Cold War
America as a World Power
The idea that if one country fell
to communism those beside it
would soon fall too?
Domino Theory
America as a World Power
Financial program created to
give money to western
European nations and other
nations in rebuilding and
opposing communism after
WWII?
Marshall Plan
America as a World Power
Proclamation given by
President Harry Truman that
the U.S. would help any
country resisting communist
control?
Truman Doctrine
America as a World Power
U.S. foreign policy to stop the
spread of communism
throughout the world?
Containment Policy
America as a World Power
Why did U.S. foreign policy
become Containment?
Soviet Union promised
to spread communism
to other countries
America as a World Power
U.S., Great Britain, France
and other Atlantic based
nations formed this after
WWII?
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
America as a World Power
In response to NATO, Russia
and other communist nations
formed this after WWII?
Warsaw Pact
America as a World Power
Economic system where there
is no private property or
market system?
Communism
America as a World Power
Asian country that fell to
communism after a civil war
between nationalist and
communist?
China
America as a World Power
Communist leader of
China?
Mao Zedong
America as a World Power
In 1950, The U.S. went to war
against the Northern
Communist half of this
country?
Korean War
America as a World Power
At the end of the Korean war
the border of South Korea
ended up here?
th
38
Parallel / where
it started
America as a World Power
This person come to power,
as a result of fear brought
about by the fall of China and
Korea to communism?
Senator Joseph
McCarthy
America as a World Power
Paranoia that the U.S.
government had been
infiltrated by Communist
spies?
McCarthyism
America as a World Power
The fear created by
McCarthyism is referred to as?
Red Scare 1950s
America as a World Power
Event when the leader of the
Communist took over a
country not to far from
Florida?
Cuban Revolution
America as a World Power
Communist leader of Cuba
during the 1957 Revolution?
Fidel Castro
America as a World Power
Failed attempt by the CIA of
the U.S. to train Cuban rebels
to invade Cuba, assassinate
Fidel Castro, and take over?
Bay of Pigs
America as a World Power
What happened as a result of
Bay of Pigs?
Cuba asked Soviet
Union for Support
America as a World Power
13 day standoff when the U.S.
and Russian come close to
having a nuclear war?
Cuban Missile
Crisis
America as a World Power
Two leaders involved in the
Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy &
Nikita Khrushchev
America as a World Power
The Cuban Missile Crisis
ended when the U.S.
promised to not invade Cuba
and pull U.S. nuclear missiles
out of?
Turkey
America as a World Power
President of the U.S.
responsible for Bay of Pigs
invasion?
John F. Kennedy
America as a World Power
U.S. War that happened in
Asia from 1950-1972 because
communist Ho Chi Mihn was
trying to take over?
Vietnam War
America as a World Power
Made many Americans question
if U.S. should be involved in
Vietnam war because of
Television coverage of
violence?
Tet Offense
America as a World Power
This happened in 1968 as a
result of the Tet Offensive?
Opposition to
the War
America as a World Power
This was responsible for the
Antivietnam war movement in
1968?
Television coverage
of Tet Offensive
America as a World Power
Geographic separation of
North and South Korea?
th
38
Parallel
America as a World Power
Geographic separation of
North and South Vietnam?
th
17
Parallel
America as a World Power
The Cuban Missile Crisis was
so scary because Russian
missiles were located close
to?
Florida
SSUSH 21
U.S. History
America as a World Power
The first unmanned satellite
put into outer space?
Sputnik I
America as a World Power
Country that launched
Sputnik I?
Soviet Union
America as a World Power
Eisenhower responded to
Sputnik I by establishing?
NASA