Transcript Chapter 18/19 Vocabulary Quiz

Chapter 18/19 Vocabulary Quiz
Cold War/Post-War Boom
1. The effort to block Soviet influence
by making alliances and supporting
weaker nations.
2. The state of hostility between the
Soviet Union and the United States
without military action.
3. A program under which the U.S.
gave economic aid to rebuild postwar
Western Europe.
4. A country dominated by the Soviet
Union.
5. Began when North Korea invaded
South Korea in 1950.
6. A defensive military alliance of the
United States, Canada, and ten
European nations.
7. A group that decided not to testify
and cooperate with hearings accusing
people of being Communist
sympathizers.
8. The willingness to go to the edge, or
brink, of war.
9. The military alliance of the Soviet
Union and its satellite nations.
10. A new peace-keeping organization
that was formed in April of 1945; soon
became an arena in which the U.S. and
the Soviet Union competed.
11. A 327 day operation in which the
U.S. and British planes flew food and
supplies into West Berlin after the
Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
12. Executed because of suspicions that
they were Communist spies during the
Cold War. Many felt they had given
bomb secrets to the Soviets.
13. A list of people that were
condemned in Hollywood for having a
Communist background.
14. The downing of a U.S. spy plane
and capture of the pilot by the Soviet
Union in 1960.
15. A phrase used by Winston Churchill in
1946 to describe an imaginary line that
separated Communist countries in the
Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from
countries in Western Europe.
16. A congressional committee that
investigated Communist influence
inside and outside the U.S.
government in the years following
World War II.
17. A U.S. policy, announced by President
Harry S. Truman in 1947, of providing
economic and military aid to free nations
threatened by internal and external
opponents.
18. The most famous anti-Communist
activist; a Republican Senator from
Wisconsin.
19. Replaced Joseph Stalin as Communist
dictator in the Soviet Union in 1953; he
believed that Communism would take over
the world.
20. The term used to refer to the tactic of
accusing people of disloyalty without
producing evidence.
21. President Harry S. Truman’s economic
program-an extension of Roosevelt’s New
Deal-which included measures to increase
the minimum wage, to extend social
security coverage, and to provide housing
for low-income families.
22. A name given to the Servicemen’s
Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that
provided financial and educational benefits
for World War II veterans.
23. The sharp increase in the U.S.
birthrate following World War II (19461964).
24. A social and artistic movement of the
1950’s, stressing unrestrained literary selfexpression and non conformity with the
mainstream culture.
25. A form of American popular music that
evolved in the 1950’s out of rhythm and blues,
country, jazz, gospel, and pop; spread worldwide
having significant impacts on social dancing,
clothing fashions, and expressions of protest.
26. One of the Southern delegates who, to
protest President Truman’s civil rights policy,
walked out of the 1948 Democratic National
Convention and formed the States’ Rights
Democratic Party.
27. A residential town or community
near a city.
28. Republican President from 1953-1961; “Ike”;
approach called “dynamic conservatism”; called
for government to be conservative when it
comes to money and liberal when it comes to
human beings.
29. Developed a vaccine for the
crippling disease of polio.
30. A preoccupation with the
purchasing of material goods.