In what year did the Space Race begin?
1957
Who was the aggressor in the Korean War?
North Korea
This plan gave financial assistance to Greece and Turkey so that they would resist communism and protect the Middle East.
The Truman Doctrine
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the
GI Bill
What country was divided into two occupation zones after World War II?
Germany
Who was winning the space race in 1957?
The Soviet Union
Which part of the Korean peninsula was communist?
North Korea
This plan gave financial assistance to war torn European countries.
Marshall Plan
Communist fears in the United States during the 1950s were known as
McCarthyism
The Blockade of West Berlin was alleviated by
the Berlin Airlift
Who developed the first atomic/nuclear bomb?
The United States
What two organization came to the aid of South Korea?
The United States & NATO
This was military alliance between capitalist and democratic nations.
NATO
Economic prosperity in the 1950s led to the
Baby Boom
East Germany was
Communist
The Soviet Union refused to allow Poland to have free elections. So the United States
did not share nuclear technology.
What was the name of the military action when President Kennedy sent troops to Cuba?
Bay of Pigs
This was a military alliance between communist and socialist countries.
Warsaw Pact
Jonas Salk developed the vaccination for _ which led to longer lived and healthier children.
Polio
West Germany was
Capitalist or Democratic
What did the USSR and the United States do to lessen the likelihood of nuclear war?
Both countries built up a nuclear arsenal that ensured mutual destruction.
Why didn't the United States want nuclear missiles in Cuba?
Too close to the United States
HUAC stands for and did
House UnAmerican Activity Committee that investigated suspected communists.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of
Espionage
The belief that communism was contagious and neighboring countries would fall to communism was known as the
Domino Theory