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Early Cold War
Mrs. Brown's Early Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union with no direct fighting, lasted from 1947 to 1991. | Cold War |
| Provided military aid to Turkey and Greece to help fight Communism. | Truman Doctrine |
| Provided aid to war torn countries in Europe. | Marshall Plan |
| The policy to keep Communism from Spreading | Containment |
| House of Un-American Activities - investigated organizations thought to be hiding or supporting Communists. | HUAC |
| Based on the fear of Communists infiltrating the U.S. | 2nd Red Scare |
| Form of government where everything is common to all people. The government owns everything and the individual has no right to anything. | Communism |
| Senator who claimed to have a list of Communists working in the Government - Never produced proof. | Joseph McCarthy |
| The name given to people that accuse others of being Communist with no actual proof. | McCarthyism |
| An imaginary line across Europe separating Communist East from Democratic West. | Iron Curtain |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Based on the concept of COLLECTIVE SECURITY each member pledged to defend every other member if attacked. | NATO |
| The Soviet Union created this in response to NATO. | Warsaw Pact |
| US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union met to discuss post war world - The United Nations, Occupying Germany, and the fate of Poland | Yalta Conference |
| The Soviet Union blockaded Western Berlin, Allies responded by using planes to fly in and drop supplies. | Berlin Airlift |
| The Soviets built this wall to separate Communist East Berlin and Free West Berlin - meant to keep Communists in. | Berlin Wall |
| A race to be the first to put a man on the moon. NASA was started and math and science became an important part of school curriculum. | Space Race |
| Trying to build bigger, better weapons faster than your enemy. | Arms Race |
| The first artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union. | Sputnik |
| The name given to Communist China. | "Red China" |
| A government employee accused of spying and found guilty of perjury. | Alger Hiss |
| A husband and wife who were charged with selling secrets about the Atomic Bombs to Russia, tried and executed with little proof at the time. | The Rosenberg Trials |
| Released in 1997 proved that the Rosenberg's were in fact guilty. | Venona Papers |
| After World War II soldiers came home from the war the number of birthrates were the largest in history. | Baby Boom |
| 1st time many people owned their own homes | Housing Boom |
| Neighborhoods outside of cities where all the houses looked the same. | Suburbs |
| New Appliance that connected all Americans | Television |
| A general during WWII, who became president during the 1950’s when the U.S. was prosperous once again. | Dwight Eisenhower |
| AKA The Servicemen Readjustment Act - gave soldiers money for education, housing, and job training. | G.I Bill |
| The government created and maintained new highways across the nation, leading to a rise in franchises such as Motels, fast food restaurants, and gas stations. | Interstate Highway Act |
| Young writers who rejected social conformity. | Beatniks |
| New style of music - Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard were pioneers. | Rock and Roll |
| The last meeting of Truman, Churchill and Stalin when tensions began to arise between Democracy and Communism. | Potsdam Conference |
| Boundary line between North Korea and South Korea that still has a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) | 38th Parallel |
| Fought between 1950-1953, Communist North Korea invades US backed South Korea. | Korean War |
| Lead the U.S, forces in aiding South Korea against North Korea. Fired by Truman for wanting to invade China. | Douglas MacArthur |
| The capital of Germany that was divided into 4 zones occupied by the U.S, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union | Berlin |
| One of the country’s earliest suburbs in New York with “cookie-cutter” houses (mass produced houses that look alike). | Levittown |
| When people are very similar to each other, seen especially in the 1950’s | Social Conformity |
| Brutal labor camps in the Soviet Union where people who were against Stalin were sent to work to death. | Gulag |
| Things that are very popular during a certain time period. | Pop Culture |
| Leader of the FBI who sent agents to investigate and arrest suspected groups of Communists. | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Professional jobs such as Clerical, sales and advertisement, and management | White collar |
| The differences in opinions, values, fashion, music styles, etc. between younger people and older people. | Generation Gap |
| Labor Jobs such as mechanic, millwright, and construction. | Blue Collar |
| A list of Actors, writers, and directors who were said to be Communist and could not be hired. | Hollywood Blacklist |
| The idea that if one country fell to Communism, all of the others around them would fall too. | The Domino Theory |
| Invented the Polio vaccine. | Jonas Salk |
| The Motto of the United States changed from “E Pluribus Unum” to this to signify we had religious freedom. | "In God We Trust" |
| Communist leader who overthrew the nationalist government in China | Mao Zedong |
| An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | United Nations |
| Discouraging an action/event through instilling fear or doubt of the consequences. The U.S. used this as a national defense strategy during the Cold War, both countries were stockpiling nuclear weapons. | Deterrence |
| Theory by John Foster Dulles that the Soviet Union would back down because of American nuclear superiority.about the Atomic Bombs to Russia, tried and executed with little proof at the time. | Brinkmanship |
| Mutually Assured Destruction. | MAD |
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