Cold War Politics Chapter 18

Visual Vocabulary

Vocabulary Quiz n  1. The effort to block Soviet

influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations.

Vocabulary Quiz n  2. The state of hostility between

the Soviet Union and the United States without military action.

Vocabulary Quiz n  3. A program under which the

U.S. gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe.

Vocabulary Quiz n  4. A country dominated by the

Soviet Union.

Vocabulary Quiz n  5. Began when North Korea

invaded South Korea in 1950.

Vocabulary Quiz n  6. A defensive military alliance of

the United States, Canada, and ten European nations.

Vocabulary Quiz n  7. A group that decided not to

testify and cooperate with hearings accusing people of being Communist sympathizers.

Vocabulary Quiz n  8. The term used to refer to the

tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence.

Vocabulary Quiz n  9. 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.

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n  10. 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.

Vocabulary Quiz n  11. Were executed because of

suspicions that they were Communist spies during the Cold War. Many felt they had given bomb secrets to the Soviets.

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n  12. A list of people that were condemned in Hollywood for having a Communist background.

Vocabulary Quiz 13. 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.

Vocabulary Quiz n  14. A congressional committee that

investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.

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n  15. 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.

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n  16. The most famous anti-Communist activist; a Republican Senator from Wisconsin.

17. A name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans.

18. The sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II

(1946-1964).

19. 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.

20. A residential town or community near a city.