May 26, 2009

Page 626 "People"

2.
Alger Hiss
- convicted in 1950 of perjury for denying that he had helped to transfer secret State Department documents to any Soviet agent before the war.

Julius Rosenberg
-Agler's engineer

Ethel Rosenberg
- Julius' wife

Whittaker Chambers
-a former Communist part member and a Soviet spy who had become horrified with Marxist totalitarianism when he realized its true nature.

3.
Joseph P. McCarthy
-Senator charged that the U.S State Department had been infiltrated by large numbers of Communist spies. he conducted investigations.

4.
Douglas MacArthur
-Appointed as Supreme Commander in the Allied occupation of Japan.

5.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

6.
Mao Tse-tung
-Waged civil war against the Chinese nationalists.

Chiang kai-shek
-War was waged against the Chinese nationalists under this man.

7.
George C. Marshall
-travelled to China and attempted to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to form a coalition goverment which would include both Communists and Nationalists.

8.
Richard M. Nixon
-A California congressman and later senator to be his Vice-Presidential running mate.

11.
Earl Warren
-struck down the former decision by a ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

14.
Rosa Parks
-Boared a city bus in Montogomery, Alabama. She sat in the front and when she was told to move to the back, she refused. Bus segregation stopped.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
-An African-American minister that stepped forward to help Rosa Parks by helping to organize a boycott of a city bus system.

17.
Fulgencio Batista
-dictator of Cuba.

Fidel Castro
-Cuban lawyer that attempted to start a revolution against the Batista government by attacking the Moncada Army Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. He organized the 26th of July Movement.

18.
Jonas E. Salk
- Discovered the polio vaccine

Albert B. Sabin
-perfected another polio vaccine that could be administered through the mouth.

19.
Jackie Robinson
- the first African-American ballplayer to play for a major league team - The Brooklyn Dodgers.

23.
Alan B. Shepherd, Jr.
-the first American in space

John H. Glenn, Jr.
-the first American to orbit the earth.

24.
Lee Harvey Oswald
-Assassinated President Kennedy



Page 602 #1-10

1. Who succeeded Franklin Roosevelt as President?
-Harry S. Truman

2. What event ended the Great Depression?
-The Postwar economic boom

3. What act was passed to cub the growing power of labor unions?
-Taft-Hartley Act

4. What treaty provided military aid to European allies?
-North Atlantic Treaty

5. What two acts were used to combat Communist subversion in America?
-Smith Act && Internal Security Act

6. Name the member of the State Department who transferred documents to a Soviet agent.
Alger Hiss

7. What couple was executed for leaking vital atomic bomb secrets to Russian agents?
-The Rosenbergs

8. What program helped the European nations in their recovery after World War 2?
-Marshall Plan

9. Nam3e the defense pact signed by the United States, Canada, and ten western European nations as a security against Communism.
-NATO.

10. What conference officially ended the Allied occupation of Japan?
-Japan Peace Treaty Conference.