History Chapter 23 Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What was post-war america marked by? | an increasing involvement in foreign affairs |
| What country was NOT split into communist and free division? | poland |
| When did the communist takeover of mainland China occur? | during the "year of shocks" |
| Who got the United Nations to intervene against the communists in Korea by acting when the soviets were temporarily absent? | truman |
| What was a brave retreat by surrounded U.S. Marines? | "Frozen Chosin" |
| What was the objective of the Taft-Hartley Act? | to weaken unions |
| What did the National Security Act create? | 1) the cia 2) the national security council 3) the secretary of defense |
| Who conducted the congressional investigation of Alger Hiss? | Richard Nixon |
| What was Eisenhower responsible for? | 1) the department of health, education, and welfare 2) interstate highway system 3) national defense education act |
| What phrase best describes post-war society in America? | "Consumer Culture" |
| What statistically dropped during post-was era? | women at home |
| What was the decision of Brown v. Board of Education? | that public schools should not be segregated by race |
| What event caused Stalin to blockade West Berlin in 1949? | allied attempts to unify west germany |
| What was the first country in the western hemisphere to fall to communism? | cuba |
| What is a right-to-work law? | ban of the union shop |
| Where did the United Nations launch a brilliant amphibious invasion of North Korea that saved South Korea? | inchon |
| What 1961 operation against Communist Cuba was backed by the United States and resulted in disaster? | bay of pigs |
| What did East Germany begin building in 1961 to prevent refuges from escaping to the West? | berlin wall |
| What were the conservative Southern Democrats who joined the States' Rights Party in 1948 commonly called? | dixiecrats |
| What term was coined to describe accusations based on lines, distortion, and innuendo? | mccarthyism |
| What were the largest civil rights protect in history? | march of washington |
| Who was Fidel Castro? | communist leader in cuba |
| Who was Ngo Dinh Diem? | nationalist leader of south vietnam |
| Who was Dwight Eisenhower? | republican who advocated 'dynamic conservatism' |
| Who was Chiang Kai Shek? | nationalist leader of china |
| Who was John F. Kennedy? | democrat who advocated the new frontier |
| Who was Douglas MacArthur? | commander of the un military in korea |
| Who was Ho Chi Minh? | communist leader in north vietnam |
| Who was Richard Nixon? | conservative republican who attacked communism |
| Who was Harry Truman? | democrat who advocated the fair deal |
| Who was Mao Zedong? | communist leader in china |
| What was the 'Baby Boom'? | massive rise in america's population following WWII |
| What was the Civil Rights Movement? | black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements |
| What was Cold War? | post-war competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union |
| What is Containment? | policy of resistance to further communist aggression |
| What is the Domino Theory? | belief that the fall of the one communist nation in southeast asia will affect the whole nation |
| What is 'Dynamic Conservatism'? | belief in helping business while promoting human welfare |
| What was the Ecumenical movement? | religious attempts to bring unity among national christians |
| What was the Iron Curtain? | separation of eastern europe from the west |
| What is Limited War? | policy of a was objective short of total victory |
| What was 'peaceful coexistence'? | goal of accommodation with communism |
| What was the Fair Deal? | truman's proposals to expand roosevelt's new deal |
| What was the John Birch Society? | a group of anti-communist conservatives |
| What was the Marshall Plan? | us program to restore the economy of western europe |
| What is the New Frontier? | kennedy's name for his legislative program |
| What was the Warsaw Pact? | mutual defense pact of communist nations |
| What was the Peace Corps? | program to send skilled volunteers to underdeveloped nations |
| What was the Truman Doctrine? | policy of aiding countries fighting against communist takeovers |
| What was the United Nations? | the forum for furthering world peace |
| What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? | mutual defense pact of free western nations |
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