Cold War Pt 1
Competition for power between USSR & U.S.
Lasts from 1947-1991
Cold War
Arms Race
USSR and U.S. competing to develop the most powerful nuclear weapons
Court case that challenged Plessy v Ferguson and ended segregation in schools
Brown v Board
Plan allowing U.S. to spend $13 billion to rebuild economies of European countries
Marshall Plan
Unmanned missile that delivered nuclear weapon thousands of miles away, developed by USSR in 1957 and U.S. in 1958
ICBM
Passed by Congress to protect and reward returning servicemen
GI Bill
Stated U.S. would provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism and USSR
If one country fired their nuclear weapons then the other would fire and both countries would be destroyed
Mutually Assured Destruction
Federal gov’t funded project to build interstate highways
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
Policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
Containment
1957, 1st man made Earth satellite Earth launched by USSR
Sputnik 1
Orders military to desegregate (integrate)
Executive Order 9981
U.S. alliance of non- communist nations
Name all three actions taken by the US following the launch of Sputnik I
U.S. invests more funds into science and math education to stay competitive
US creates NASA in 1958 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Engineers and scientists develop new technology, which in turn led to the eventual development of the Internet
Practice of accusing someone as communist without having substantial evidence
McCarthyism