Chapters 18 & 19

Cold War Review Sheet

Answer all of the following on another sheet of paper!

1. Define satellite nations.

2. Define containment.

3. Define blacklisting.

4. Define Berlin Airlift.

5. Define Cold War.

6. What is NATO?

7. What was the Warsaw Pact?

8. Define arms race.

9. Define McCarthyism.

10. Who were the Hollywood Ten? Why was their imprisonment unfair?

11. In your own words, what was the goal of the Truman Doctrine? Who did the US give money to as a result? How much was given?

12. What was HUAC? What does it stand for?

13. In China’s civil war, what were the two groups that were competing for control of the country? Who was the leader of each group?

14. In the Communist Revolution in China, why did so many peasant farmers support the Communists before WWII, during WWII, and after WWII?

15. Who was forced to retreat to Taiwan after the Communist Revolution in China?

16. Who made the accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military?

17. When the USSR gained an atomic bomb, the US responded by increasing efforts to develop what?

18. What was the main reason that the US feared the USSR so much?

19. What evidence did McCarthy have to support his accusations?

20. What was the border between North and South Korea before the war and after the war?

21. What was General Douglas MacArthur’s opinion about how to deal with Chinese involvement in the Korean War?

22. What were the outcomes of the Korean War?

23. Define brinkmanship.

24. What was the U-2 Incident?

25. Define covert operations.

26. What were outcomes of the U-2 Incident?

27. Define the baby boom.

28. Define franchise.

29. Define planned obsolescence.

30. Define consumerism.

31. What was the disadvantage of standardization in American business? (Hint: how did the new white collar jobs effect men’s emotions and why?)

32. What was the group (gender/racial) that benefited most from the economy and culture of the 1950’s?

33. What were the effects of the dramatic increase in car ownership in the 1950’s?

34. How did mainstream white, suburban parents view the beat movement and rock ‘n’ roll?

35. What were the benefits offered by the G.I. Bill of Rights?

36. What was the major criticism of suburban life in the 1950’s?

37. What book made people aware that many women

had a sense of dissatisfaction with their roles as wives and mothers?

38. Who was the author?

39. What effect did the baby boom in the 1950’s have on the economy?

40. Describe women’s roles in the 1950’s. (Make sure to discuss family, opportunity, and jobs).

There will be a few questions that ask you to analyze a map of NATO and Warsaw Pact countries.

There are three short, one-paragraph essays on the test.

Each essay is 5-points, and there will be a 5-point grammar and spelling grade.

Essay 1: What is the different between the 1950’s family as shown on television versus the reality of how people felt and acted? (Think about “Nick at Night” shows, Pleasantville, “Dinner Date with your Family,” and The Feminine Mystique.)

Essay 2: After watching The Atomic Café, Chernobyl Heart, and Trinity: Atomic Bomb Movie and reading “What if a Bomb Hit Home,” describe in one paragraph the effects of nuclear war. What are the types of destruction? What are the effects of radiation?

Essay 3: This essay will involve a poem or song written about a major 1950’s event or issue that we’ve studied. You will need to circle lines or lyrics that relate to what we’ve studied, and explain how it relates.