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| Why did nations join this organization (NATO)? | The Soviet Union responded to the formation NATO by creating the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance with its satellite nations in Eastern Europe. |
| Identify the 38th Parallel. | It is the latitude line running across Korea at approximately the midpoint of the peninsula. |
| What was the result of America's involvement in the Korean War? | NATO was formed. |
| The firing of MacArthur in the Korean War | MacArthur's dispute with President Truman led the President to fire him for insubordination. |
| What reason did the U.S. become involved in Middle East afffairs after the World War II? | The U.S. supported Israel, while the Soviet Union generally baked Arab interests. The U.S. also worked to prevent oil-rich Arab nations from falling under the influence of the Soviet Union. The U.S. backed groups that overthrew the nationalist government and restored the pro-American Shah of Iran to power. Eisenhower persuaded his NATO allies to withdraw from Egypt, which retained control of the canal. |
| What did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin decide at the Yalta conference? | They agreed on the division of Germany into American, British, French, and Soviet occupation zones. Roosevelt and Churchill rejected Stalin's demand that Germany pay the Soviet Union $20 billion in war damages. |
| What was the purpose of the Federal Employee Loyalty Program and the McCarthy hearings? | Under the Federal Employee Loyalty Program, all new employees hired by the federal government were to be investigated. In addition, the FBI checked its files for evidence of current government employees who might be engaged in suspicious activities. The McCarthy hearings was a set of televised hearings conducted to investigate charges between the Army and McCarthy. By the time it ended, McCarthy had lost most of his supporters. |
| For fifty years, what was the characteristic of the Cold War? | It was characterized by political and economic conflict and military tensions. The U.S. did engage in combat in other nations as part of the American effort to defeat the Soviet supported uprisings and invasions wherever they occurred. |
| How did Truman react to the USSR's development of an atomic bomb? | His response was to forge ahead with a new weapon to maintain America's nuclear superiority. He gave approval for the development of a hydrogen or thermonuclear bomb that would be more destructive than the atomic bomb. |
| When did Senator Joseph McCarthy's power fade? | He accused people of being Communist. Being accused by him caused people to lose their jobs and reputations. Senators came to fear him. He even said that the Army was full of Communist. A hearing was held and he no longer had credibility. |
| During the Cold War, what was the purpose of containment and deterrence? | Containment recognized the possibility that East Europe was already lost to communism. It called for the U.S. to resist Soveit attemps to form Communist governments elsewhere in the world. Deterrrence is the policy of making the military power of the U.S. and its allies so strong that no enemy would dare attack for fear of retaliation. |
