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36 Cards in this Set
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Why did President Truman set up the Federal Employee Loyalty Program?
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to investigate federal workers
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What happened when federal workers were accused of communist sympathies?
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they were assumed to be guilty
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What does it mean when several U.S. citizens are convicted as spies, it confirms the existence of what?
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an internal communist threat
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How did Joseph McCarthy rise to power, he portrayed himself as a leader of what?
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the anticommunist movement
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What was the result of the tactics that McCarthy used in his accusations of communists in government?
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careers and lives were ruined as a result
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What was a major contribution to the suspicion and fear that occurred in the U.S. government during the 1940s and 1950s?
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the anticommunist crusades lead by McCarthy
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What was the response of the Soviet Union when France, Britain, and the U.S. merged their zones and formed West Germany?
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it blockaded all ground and water routes to West Berline
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As a result of _________________, Korea remained divided almost exactly the same as before the war.
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the Korean War
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What did the U.S. do after WWII, to protect U.S. financial investments in Latin America?
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they become involved in the affairs of Latin American nations
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What did Truman's Federal Employee Program and Joseph McCarthy's hearings do?
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they worked to prvent communism from infiltrating American society
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Robideaux 10
Chapter 17 |
cut apart and study
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What did Americans and the Soviet Union agree on during the Cold War?
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the need for a strong national defense
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What did the Soviets envision workers would do in a proletarian state?
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share resources equally
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Who ruled the harsh totalitarian system of the Soviet state?
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Joseph Stalin
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What did the Soviet Union think it should do to protect itself from its western neighbors?
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they wanted its western neighbors to be communist societies
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How did Truman obtain public support for the Truman Doctrine?
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by frightening the country
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What did the United States do to strengthen the economies of Western Europe under the Marshall Plan?
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donated billions of dollars
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What was the major U.S. foreign policy objective in the postwar?
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to stop the spread of communism without starting another world war
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Who set up the governments of North and South Korea?
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the Soviet Union and the United States
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Why is the Middle East important strategically?
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because of oil reserves
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Who dominated the economies of Latin American by the mid 1920s?
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the United States
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The United States severed diplomatic ties with Cuba in response to what?
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seizure of American property
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What was one result of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
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that the two nations formed competing military alliances
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Why was the Marshall Plan proposed after WWII?
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to help European nations recover economically
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President Harry Truman supported a containment policy after WWII in an attempt to do what?
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reduce the influence of the Soviet Union in European countries
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What was one reason the United States became involved in the Vietnam War?
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to prevent the spread of communism in Indochina
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What was Senator Joseph McCarthy famous for in the 1950s?
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for leading a "witch hunt" for communist spies in the U.S. government
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What was one contributing factor for the growth of McCarthyism in the early 1950s?
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public fear concerning the spread of communism
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What was similar about the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s?
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it jeopardized the rights of individuals who were suspected of un-American activity
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What was the cause for the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s
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the belief that there were Communist agents in the federal government
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Social Studies 10
Chapter 17 The Cold War and American Society 1945-1960 |
study the flashcards for the test
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What does the term proletariat mean?
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it is another name for the working class
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What term is used to refer to the invisible wall that divided the capitalist west from the communist east?
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Iron Curtain
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How did President Dwight D. Eisenhower justify the U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
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the domino theory
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What is the term used to refer to the indirect conflict that existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1980?
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The Cold War
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What is the name of the doctrine which supported U.S. policy to support "free people" resisting communism?
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TRUMAN DOCTRINE
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