Chapter 9 - 7th/8th Grade Homework

Chapter 9

1. How many televisions were being purchased per year in the 1950’s?
2. How did Russians react to the death of Stalin?
3. Why did they react that way after all the terrible things he had done?
4. What position did Eisenhower hold during WWII?
5. Most of Eisenhower’s advisors were what?
6. How many Americans died in the Korean War?
7. Who became the leader of the U.S.S.R. after Stalin?
8. Define “prescient”.
9. What was the “arms race”?
10. Did Khrushchev actually say “we will bury you”?
11. Do you think it is ok to call a period “good times” when not everyone is benefiting and why?