UNIT 8 TEST REVIEW U.S. History
Mar 18, 2016
UNIT 8 TEST REVIEWU.S. History
SSUSH 20U.S. History
America as a World PowerEra after WWII when the U.S.
and capitalist nations competed with communist
Russia over control of Europe?
Cold War
America as a World Power
The idea that if one country fell to communism those beside it
would soon fall too?
Domino Theory
America as a World Power
Financial program created to give money to western
European nations and other nations in rebuilding and
opposing communism after WWII?
Marshall Plan
America as a World Power
Proclamation given by President Harry Truman that
the U.S. would help any country resisting communist
control?
Truman Doctrine
America as a World Power
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of communism throughout the world?
Containment Policy
America as a World PowerWhy did U.S. foreign policy
become Containment?
Soviet Union promised to spread communism
to other countries
America as a World PowerU.S., Great Britain, France and other Atlantic based nations formed this after
WWII?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
America as a World PowerIn response to NATO, Russia and other communist nations
formed this after WWII?
Warsaw Pact
America as a World Power
Economic system where there is no private property or
market system?
Communism
America as a World Power
Asian country that fell to communism after a civil war
between nationalist and communist?
China
America as a World Power
Communist leader of China?
Mao Zedong
America as a World Power
In 1950, The U.S. went to war against the Northern
Communist half of this country?
Korean War
America as a World Power
At the end of the Korean war the border of South Korea
ended up here?
38th Parallel / where it started
America as a World Power
This person come to power, as a result of fear brought
about by the fall of China and Korea to communism?
Senator Joseph McCarthy
America as a World Power
Paranoia that the U.S. government had been
infiltrated by Communist spies?
McCarthyism
America as a World Power
The fear created by McCarthyism is referred to as?
Red Scare 1950s
America as a World Power
Event when the leader of the Communist took over a country not to far from
Florida?
Cuban Revolution
America as a World Power
Communist leader of Cuba during the 1957 Revolution?
Fidel Castro
America as a World Power
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
America as a World Power
What happened as a result of Bay of Pigs?
Cuba asked Soviet Union for Support
America as a World Power
13 day standoff when the U.S. and Russian come close to
having a nuclear war?
Cuban Missile Crisis
America as a World Power
Two leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy & Nikita Khrushchev
America as a World Power
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the U.S.
promised to not invade Cuba and pull U.S. nuclear missiles
out of?
Turkey
America as a World Power
President of the U.S. responsible for Bay of Pigs
invasion?
John F. Kennedy
America as a World Power
U.S. War that happened in Asia from 1950-1972 because communist Ho Chi Mihn was
trying to take over?
Vietnam War
America as a World Power
Made many Americans question if U.S. should be involved in
Vietnam war because of Television coverage of
violence?
Tet Offense
America as a World Power
This happened in 1968 as a result of the Tet Offensive?
Opposition to the War
America as a World Power
This was responsible for the Antivietnam war movement in
1968?
Television coverage of Tet Offensive
America as a World Power
Geographic separation of North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
America as a World Power
Geographic separation of North and South Vietnam?
17th Parallel
America as a World Power
The Cuban Missile Crisis was so scary because Russian missiles were located close
to?
Florida
SSUSH 21U.S. History
America as a World Power
The first unmanned satellite put into outer space?
Sputnik I
America as a World Power
Country that launched Sputnik I?
Soviet Union
America as a World Power
Eisenhower responded to Sputnik I by establishing?
NASA