History, 26.2

Hollywood ten

10 Motion Picture producers, directors and screenwriters who appeared before the house unamerican Committee in October 1947

Blacklist

A list of people or products reviewed with suspicion or disapproval

Warsaw Pact

A list of people whom employers agreed not so hire because of their supposed disloyalty

Through the Marshall Plan, the United States hoped to

Aid the economy recovery of Western Europe, create strong democracies, and open new markets for American Goods

House unamerican Activities Committee

Established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty and used to probe communist infiltration of government agencies during the Cold War

How did Truman react to the USSR's development of an atomic bomb

He gave approval for the u.s. development an more powerful bomb

By ordering the Berlin airlift, President Truman succeeded in

Keeping in the Soviet Union from taking West Berlin

McCarran Walter Act

Law that reaffirmed a quota of immigrants from each country, discriminating against Asia and Southern and Central Europe

Formation of NATO was proposed in order to

Protect Western Europe from Soviet aggression

What was one result of the federal government's hunt for communists

Some people civil rights were violated

Two events that occurred in 1949 that increased Americans concerns about the Cold War were

The Soviet Union's development of an atomic bomb and the Communist takeover China

Loyalty programs proved unfair because

The people accused of disloyalty often had little chance to defend themselves

Collective security

The principle of mutual military assistance in which a group of Nations agreed that an attack against one of them would be considered as an attack against all of them

What did some members of Congress call for after China fell to Mao Zedong's forces

The protection of the rest of Asia

Why did the Soviet Union try to Force the allies to abandon West Berlin

To close an escape route to the West

What was one goal of the Marshall Plan

To create stable democracies that could resist communism

Why did a number of nations joined to form NATO in 1949

To protect themselves from possible Soviet aggression