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Army Air Force Becomes U.S. Air Force

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July 1947
When was an independent United States Air Force created?
Stuart Symington
Who was the first secretary of the Air Force?
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
What was the atomic-weapons command of the Air Force?
The atomic bomb
What technology would shape the mission of the Air Force?
The Soviet Union
Who did the United States wage the Cold War against?
United Nations
What is the name for the worldwide organization first formed in 1945 by the victorious Allies to maintain international peace?
The European Recovery Act passed by Congress in 1948
This plan was a strategy for rebuilding the countries of Europe and repelling communism after World War II
What was the Marshall Plan?
To ensure that the United States can retaliate if it is attacked
If one type of weapon becomes vulnerable to an enemy, the other types would still be protected
What was the purpose of developing multiple methods for delivering nuclear weapons?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
What did the United States and Western European countries form in 1949?
Missiles
What are rocket-propelled vehicles that carry a weapon or warhead?
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber
What aircraft became SAC's main bomber?
They divided Germany into two parts, each side ruled its part as they wished
What did the Allies do with Germany after World War II?
The Berlin Airlift
What did the Western Allies conduct in order to prevent the Soviet takeover of West Berlin?
Major General William Turner
Who had a specialty in transport planes?
1st Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen
Who was known as the "candy bomber"?
A limited war
What is a war in which opposing sides try to avoid a worldwide war and the possible use of atomic bombs by fighting with each other outside their own lands and sometimes through troops who aren't their own?
Korean retaliation invaded its pro-western neighbor to the south
What was the first military action of the Cold War?
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