Origins Of The Cold War + Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 40776)


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The Berlin Airlift
a) taking oil from the middle east
b) competition for jobs on the West Coast
c) A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air
d) China's actions during the Boxer Rebellion

Baby Boom
a) a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II.
b) financial aid to Europe
c) a temporary decline in the birth rate following WWI
d) an atomic fallout shelter

The Marshall Plan
a) plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II, proposed by U.S. Secretary of State George C. M
b) a garden planted by civilians during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more of other food for the troops
c) the policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power
d) a new industrial region in Southern California and the Deep South, developing during World War II

Truman Doctrine
a) policy of sending aid to countries that are resisting foreign rule (communism). First used to aid Turkey and Greece
b) a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
c) a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to
d) a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target

Naval blockade
a) to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons
b) a policy of threatening a massive response, including the use of nuclear weapons, against a Communist state trying to seize a
c) encirclement, a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
d) a military alliance between western Europe and North America.

Massive retaliation
a) a policy of threatening a massive response, including the use of nuclear weapons, against a Communist state trying to seize a
b) encirclement, a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
c) to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons
d) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance between western Europe and North America.

McCarthyism
a) making accusations of treason or disloyalty without proper evidence
b) the policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power
c) a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to
d) encirclement, a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.

NATO
a) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance between western Europe and North America.
b) to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons
c) encirclement, a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
d) a policy of threatening a massive response, including the use of nuclear weapons, against a Communist state trying to seize a

Define: Loyalty review program
a) the policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power
b) a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
c) a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to
d) a campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy

Define: Subversion
a) the policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power
b) a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
c) a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to
d) a campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy

Containment policy
a) the policy of preventing the expansion of a communist hostile power
b) a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
c) a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to
d) a campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy i

GI Bill
a) a law passed to financial assist Europe recover after WW I
b) a garden planted by civilians during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more of other food for the troops
c) A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in WW II
d) a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and often racism and no tolerance of the oppositio

levittown
a) the name of seven large suburban housing developments created in the US following WW II
b) competition for jobs on the West Coast
c) a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to
d) the belief that only the strongest countries will survive and the rest will be fall under their control

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