1. Midterm Jeopardy Review VocabularyAsian Leaders People/ Groups CausesPresidentsPotpourri 100 200 300 400 500

2. Fear of communism throughout America during the 1950s home

3. The Red Scare home

4. When people in the entertainment industry were on a list of possible “communists” and therefore they could not get jobs in their industry. home

5. Blacklisted home

6. This was created to help American soldiers coming home from WWII -gave loans with low interest rates, unemployment for 1 year and paid for school Bonus: Official Name home

7. GI Bill of Rights AKA: Serviceman’s Readjustment Act

8. A country that rejected both American and Soviet dominated alliances was considered this home

9. A non-alligned nation home

10. This strategy believes in using all means necessary (nuclear war) to stop Communist aggression. home

11. Massive Retaliation (brinkmanship) home

12. Communist leader of the North Vietnamese, who was loved by many of his peasants home

13. Ho Chi Minh home

14. Communist leader who won the support of his peasants during the Chinese Civil War home

15. Mao Zedong home

16. Peaceful leader who fought for Indian Independence with peaceful protests and civil disobedience home

17. Mohandas Gandhi home

18. initial leader of South Vietnam who Kennedy supported but cancelled the 1956 election in Vietnam home

19. Ngo Dinh Diem home

20. Chinese Nationalist leader who wound up losing the war and fleeing to _______ Bonus: his “other” name home

21. Chiang Kai-Shek AKA: Jiang Jieshi Fled to Taiwan home

22. Counterculture of the 1950s conformity home

23. Beatniks home

24. Hollywood actors accused of putting communist propaganda in movies home

25. Hollywood Ten home

26. This person made unsubstantiated accusations that communists were present in the military and government home

27. Joseph McCarthy home

28. This movement was for Jews to reclaim their homeland This and the fact that people were feeling sorry for the Jews after the Holocaust led to the creation of Israel. home

29. Zionist Movement (Zionists) home

30. These people were executed for being spies and giving information about the atomic bomb to the USSR. home

31. Ethyl and Julius Rosenberg home

32. What was the cause of the Korean War? Bonus: Who intervened to help? home

33. Communist North Korea invaded Democratic South Korea The UN sent forces with the goal of reestablishing the 38 th parallel, but opposed aggressive force home

34. What is the cause of conflict in Kashmir? home

35. Kashmir belongs to India (which is mostly Hindu) but it has a big population of Muslims so Pakistan wants it as their own. home

36. List three causes for the start of the Cold War (100 points each) home

37. 1. Soviet rejection of free elections in post-war Eastern Europe 2. post-war occupation of Germany 3. clash of political and economic beliefs between the Americans and Soviets 4. distrust between FDR (&Truman) and Stalin home

38. What led to the emergence of new nations after WWII? (100 pts each) home

39. 1. Defeat of dictatorships (had to give up their colonies as punishment) 2. Decline of colonial powers (weakened and broke from the war) 3. Unparalleled destruction (rebuilding their own nations) 4. Rise of Superpowers (trying to get people on their side, each side favored end of colonialism) home

40. What caused major problems in the development of newly formed African Nations? home

41. -political boundaries imposed by Europeans had little relationship to African tribal boundaries so there was still a lot of turmoil and civil war within new nations. home

42. This president’s domestic agenda was called The Great Society Bonus: What were the two key points of the Great Society home

43. President Lyndon B. Johnson The Great Society focused on Poverty and Civil Rights home

44. This president coined the term “domino theory” Bonus for explaining Domino theory home

45. Dwight D. Eisenhower Domino theory is that if one country falls to communism, the surrounding countries will also fall home

46. This president pledged to give financial aid to Greece and Turkey after WWII Bonus: What was this pledge called and why was it done? home

47. Harry S. Truman Truman Doctrine was in order to help contain communism, so they didn’t feel desperate enough to fall to communism home

48. This president shifted foreign policy from brinkmanship to a more flexible response bonus: Whose policy was brinkmanship? Double bonus: Explain each home

49. John F. Kennedy Brinkmanship: Eisenhower- ready to go to the edge of war (nuclear) Flexible response- possible to respond in different ways based on the situation (not just nuclear) home

50. This president organized a secret bombing campaign on _____, even after he laid his plans for Vietnamization (DAILY DOUBLE for explanation of WHY) home

51. Richard Nixon Cambodia and Laos In order to destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail home

52. What countries were divided into communist and democratic after WWII? home

53. Vietnam, Korea, & Germany home

54. Why were NATO and the Warsaw Pact formed? home

55. –NATO was an alliance formed by Western nations against communist aggression –Warsaw Pact was formed in response to NATO (eastern communist nations) home

56. What happened to Japan after WWII? home

57. 1.U.S. helped rebuild it’s economy 2. They became a representative democracy and the U.S. helped write their constitution 3. Japan could only have a military large enough for self-defense 4. Emperor became a figurehead home

58. What are the two main goals of the United Nations? home

59. 1. Promote world peace 2. Raise the standard of living home

60. What made the Cold War different than any other? home

61. There was no direct war between the two major powers AND Mutually Assured Destruction was a possibility home