Ch 21 WS #3

American History

1. What kind of people were many Americans afraid were in the country during the Cold War?

2. What did HUAC do?

3. Who was Alger Hiss?

4. What happened to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Why?

5. What did Sen. Joe McCarthy claim?

6. What was McCarthyism?

7. In what year did the Soviet Union first test its atomic bomb?

8. What would kill more people than the blast of a nuclear bomb?

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9. What was the idea of “massive retaliation?”

10. What was Sputnik?

11. What is brinkmanship?

12. What methods did the CIA use to help make sure gov’ts in developing countries were pro-American?

13. Who was Francis Gary Powers and what happened to him?