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Cold War Key Terms
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cold War- Tension between_____ (Soviet Union) and ______ (USA) | Communist, Tolitarian |
| Potsdam Conference- What to do with _______ Europe/divide _______ | postwar, Germany |
| Truman Doctrine-- Policy of _______/ in ____ and _______ | Containment, Asia, Europe |
| Marshall Plan-- Money to _____ Western Europe | Rebuild |
| Satellite Nations- | Nations controlled by Soviet Union that are around it (Communist Bloc) |
| Berlin Airlift- Saved West Berlin after the Soviet Union _____ roads leading into city | Blockades |
| 2 Causes of American fear in 1949 | Communism, Spies |
| Iron Curtain- | Communism in Europe, didn't allow people out |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)- alliance of _______ Nations | Democratic |
| Warsaw Pact- alliance of ______ Nations | Communist |
| GI Bill of Rights- Gave veterans money for _____, ______, and ______ | College, homes, and businesses |
| Truman and the Fair Deal- Truman desegregates/integrates the _______ | Military |
| United Nations-- | Worldwide peace keeping organization |
| Security Council-- Part of the U.N. that can send ___________ to warring nations | Military Force |
| Cause of the Korean War-- __________ crossed the ___ parallel, invading _______ | North Korea, 38th, South Korea |
| Douglas McArther- Wanted to drop the _______ on China. Was fired for __________ President_______ | Atomic Bomb, Publicly Criticizing, Truman |
| Result of the Korean War-- | Containment worked, Stalemate at 38th parallel |
| Eisenhower Doctrine- Policy of Containment in the ________ for __ | Middle East, Oil |
| Brinkmanship- Eisenhower's policy of Massive Retaliation or threatening to ___________________________________ | Massive Nuke, Strike, Mutually Assured Destruction |
| Military- Industrial Complex- Eisenhower warns about ___________________________________ | relationships between civilian industries and the mill |
| Sputnik-- | Soviet Union, first man-made satellite in space, frightened America |
| 2 Results of Sputnik- U.S. forms ______ and Concentrates on _____ and _____ in schools | N.A.S.A., Math, Science |
| U-2 Incident-- | An American spy plane was shot down over Russia |
| HUAC- held hearing to investigate _______ in America | Communism |
| Joseph McCarthy/McCarthyism- 2nd __________ /witch hunt | Red Scare |
| Hollywood Ten- Refused to name names and were ________ from getting jobs | Blacklisted |
| Alger Hiss- Sent to jail for committing ______ | Perjury |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg- Executed for ___________ | Spying for the Soviet Union |
| Baby Booms-- | WWII soldiers came home and made babies |
| Suburbs- Areas outside of a _____/ White-Flight-- Whites moved to suburbs to get away from ___________ | city, inner city African Americans |
| Election of 1960- 1st debate on _____ | Television |
| Fidel Castro-- | Communist leader of Cuba |
| Bay of Pigs- Failed invasion of ____ | Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis- Closest the World has come to ______ | WWIII |
| Quarantine Line-- | Which Soviet Ships would be upon if they passed (500 miles around Cuba) |
| Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis- | American missiles pulled out of Turkey, Russia missiles removed from Cuba |
| Berlin Wall- Separates a _________ East from a _________ West | Communist, Democratic |
| New Frontier- Programs started by _____ | JFK |
| Alliance for Progress- Money sent to ______________ to fight __________ stop the spread of COmmmunism | Third World Poor, Dictators |
| Peace Corps-- ________ to help out people in other Countries | Sent People (Volunteers) |
| Lee Harvey Oswald- Assassinated ____ | JFK |
| Warren Commission- Stated that Oswald ______ | Acted alone |
| Lyndon B. Johnson-- Programs called the ________ | Great Society |
| Civil Rights Act- Desegregates _________ | Schools, Public Facilities |
| Voting Rights Act- make voter _____ illegal | intemedation |
| Medicare is for _______ and Medicaid is for ________ | old people, young and impovershed |
| What was the goal of Affirmative Action? | Help minorities get jobs |
| 24th Amendment- Outlaws the _______ (pay to vote) | poll tax |
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