unit 8 test review u.s. history. ssush 20 u.s. history

UNIT 8 TEST REVIEWU.S. History

SSUSH 20U.S. History

America as a World Power

Era after WWII when the U.S. and capitalist nations

competed with communist Russia over control of

Europe?

Cold War


The idea that if one country fell to communism those beside it

would soon fall too?

Domino Theory


Financial program created to give money to western

European nations and other nations in rebuilding and

opposing communism after WWII?

Marshall Plan


Proclamation given by President Harry Truman that

the U.S. would help any country resisting communist

control?

Truman Doctrine


U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of communism throughout the world?

Containment Policy


Why did U.S. foreign policy become Containment?

Soviet Union promised to spread communism

to other countries


U.S., Great Britain, France and other Atlantic based nations formed this after

WWII?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)


In response to NATO, Russia and other communist nations

formed this after WWII?

Warsaw Pact


Economic system where there is no private property or

market system?

Communism


Asian country that fell to communism after a civil war

between nationalist and communist?

China


Communist leader of China?

Mao Zedong


In 1950, The U.S. went to war against the Northern

Communist half of this country?

Korean War


At the end of the Korean war the border of South Korea

ended up here?

38th Parallel / where it started


This person come to power, as a result of fear brought

about by the fall of China and Korea to communism?

Senator Joseph McCarthy


Paranoia that the U.S. government had been

infiltrated by Communist spies?

McCarthyism


The fear created by McCarthyism is referred to as?

Red Scare 1950s


Event when the leader of the Communist took over a country not to far from

Florida?

Cuban Revolution


Communist leader of Cuba during the 1957 Revolution?

Fidel Castro


Failed attempt by the CIA of the U.S. to train Cuban rebels to invade Cuba, assassinate Fidel Castro, and take over?

Bay of Pigs


What happened as a result of Bay of Pigs?

Cuba asked Soviet Union for Support


13 day standoff when the U.S. and Russian come close to

having a nuclear war?

Cuban Missile Crisis


Two leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

John F. Kennedy & Nikita Khrushchev


The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the U.S.

promised to not invade Cuba and pull U.S. nuclear missiles

out of?

Turkey


President of the U.S. responsible for Bay of Pigs

invasion?

John F. Kennedy


U.S. War that happened in Asia from 1950-1972 because communist Ho Chi Mihn was

trying to take over?

Vietnam War


Made many Americans question if U.S. should be involved in

Vietnam war because of Television coverage of

violence?

Tet Offense


This happened in 1968 as a result of the Tet Offensive?

Opposition to the War


This was responsible for the Antivietnam war movement in

1968?

Television coverage of Tet Offensive


Geographic separation of North and South Korea?

38th Parallel


Geographic separation of North and South Vietnam?

17th Parallel


The Cuban Missile Crisis was so scary because Russian missiles were located close

to?

Florida

SSUSH 21U.S. History


The first unmanned satellite put into outer space?

Sputnik I


Country that launched Sputnik I?

Soviet Union


Eisenhower responded to Sputnik I by establishing?

NASA

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