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 (1946-1964).

24. A social and artistic movement of the 1950’s, stressing unrestrained literary self-

expression 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.