Unit 7 Study Guide – Chapters 12 – 13
Instructions: Use your notes and the textbook to answer the following questions.
1. Who did the Lend-Lease Act help and what kind of help did it give?
2. What was the iron curtain?
3. The Truman Doctrine was a pledge to help ______and ______fight ______.
4. What was the Marshall Plan?
5. What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?
6. What started the Korean War the 1950?
7. What marked the division between North and South Korea?
8. The stockpiling of US nuclear warheads went along with Eisenhower’s foreign policy which was called ______.
9. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin died in 1953?
10. What event resulted in President Eisenhower admitting that the US spied on the USSR?
11. In which nation were soviet troops pushed out while the people waited for aid from President Eisenhower which never came?
12. Who did HUAC investigate beginning in 1938?
13. Who led a “witch hunt” for communist spies in the US government in the early 1950s?
14. What was a result of the Hollywood Ten trial?
15. Why were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg executed?
16. What intelligence gathering organization did the US establish in 1947?
17. What is M.A.D. and how was it supposed to prevent nuclear war?
18. How did Sputnik affect the US space program?
19. What government agency coordinates American scientific and military space interests?
20. What was the main purpose of the National Defense Education Act?
21. What government program contributed to the increase in college degrees in the late 1940s?
22. How did the Taft Hartley Act affect unions?
23. What did Eisenhower build in the 1950s that helped the growth of suburbs?
24. What was Levittown?
25. Which states are part of the sunbelt?
26. What is an example of a service sector job?
27. What was the California master plan?
28. Why did so many people wait to have babies until after WWII?
29. Who pioneered rock and roll in the 1950s?
30. What group of anti-conformists did Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg represent?
31. What 1950s icons represented the youth rebellion of the 1950s?
Unit 7 Study Guide – Chapters 12 – 13
Instructions: Use your notes and the textbook to answer the following questions.
1. Who did the Lend-Lease Act help and what kind of help did it give?
2. What was the iron curtain?
3. The Truman Doctrine was a pledge to help ______and ______fight ______.
4. What was the Marshall Plan?
5. What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?
6. What started the Korean War the 1950?
7. What marked the division between North and South Korea?
8. The stockpiling of US nuclear warheads went along with Eisenhower’s foreign policy which was called ______.
9. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin died in 1953?
10. What event resulted in President Eisenhower admitting that the US spied on the USSR?
11. In which nation were soviet troops pushed out while the people waited for aid from President Eisenhower which never came?
12. Who did HUAC investigate beginning in 1938?
13. Who led a “witch hunt” for communist spies in the US government in the early 1950s?
14. What was a result of the Hollywood Ten trial?
15. Why were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg executed?
16. What intelligence gathering organization did the US establish in 1947?
17. What is M.A.D. and how was it supposed to prevent nuclear war?
18. How did Sputnik affect the US space program?
19. What government agency coordinates American scientific and military space interests?
20. What was the main purpose of the National Defense Education Act?
21. What government program contributed to the increase in college degrees in the late 1940s?
22. How did the Taft Hartley Act affect unions?
23. What did Eisenhower build in the 1950s that helped the growth of suburbs?
24. What was Levittown?
25. Which states are part of the sunbelt?
26. What is an example of a service sector job?
27. What was the California master plan?
28. Why did so many people wait to have babies until after WWII?
29. Who pioneered rock and roll in the 1950s?
30. What group of anti-conformists did Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg represent?
31. What 1950s icons represented the youth rebellion of the 1950s?