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Name: ________________________________________ Chapter 11 Study Guide 1. In a speech in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that an “iron curtain” had descended across Europe. What did he mean by the “iron curtain”? The separation of Communist countries in Eastern Europe from the democratic nations in the west. 2. When the Soviets blockaded West Berlin in 1948, the United States and Great Britain organized the Berlin Airlift to supply the city. 3. After World War II, a new type of conflict developed between the Soviet Union and the United States which was called the Cold War. 4. The Cold War was between two forms of government: the United States which was a democracy and the former Soviet Union which was communist. 5. American troops went to Korea because South Korea was invaded BY North Korea. 6. In 1950, the United States became involved in the Korean War to stop the spread of communism to South Korea. 7. The two military alliances that opposed each other in Europe during the Cold War were the Warsaw Pact and the NATO. 8. Joseph McCarthy was a US senator during the 1950s that held hearings to look into possible communist threats and accused several people of being communists. 9. The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the former Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba and aimed them at the US. 10. The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. 11. President Johnson called his social programs the Great Society. 12. NASA was created after the Soviets launched the satellite Sputnik. 13. The United States space exploration caused the computer industry to grow rapidly. 14. Brown v. Board of Education led to the desegregation of schools. 15. Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraged his followers to use nonviolence. 16. Rosa Parks’s arrest led African Americans to organize the Montgomery bus boycott. 17. Civil Rights Act of 1964 finally gave all citizens equal access to restaurants, hotels, libraries, and theaters. 18. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of the Civil Rights Movement. 19. Brown vs. Board of Education led to the end of segregation laws that caused inequality. Name: ________________________________________ Chapter 11 Study Guide 20. The Civil Rights movement encouraged African Americans to work toward equality. 21. John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were all assassinated in the 1960s. What impact did their assassinations have on American society? Answers will vary. 22. The United States began to send troops to Vietnam in the 1950s to stop the spread of communism into South Vietnam 23. The Vietnam War began in the 1950s, and it did not end until 1975. As a result, all of Vietnam became communist. 24. The Vietcong refers to South Vietnamese communists 25. People in the United States who were against the Vietnam War became known as Doves. 26. Nixon was the US president involved in the Watergate Scandal. 27. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter helped make a peace agreement, known as the Camp David Accords, between Egypt and Israel. 28. In 1989, Eastern European countries declared their independence from the Soviet Union. The Cold War was ending. Even the Soviet Union divided into independent countries. 29. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 resulted in the Persian Gulf War 30. The United States sent troops into the Persian Gulf War in 1991 because a country that supplied U.S. oil had been invaded. 31. The War on Terrorism began in response to attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001.