Start of the Cold War
Cold War Policies
Cold War in Asia
1950s
The Second Red Scare
100
European nation partitioned between the Allied victors following WWII.
What is Germany?
100
Long-term American policy towards the Soviet Union to prevent the spread of its influence/communism.
What is the containment policy?
100
Large Asian nation that fell to communism in 1949?
What is China?
100
Helped veterans buy homes, go to college and receive job training.
What is the GI Bill?
100
Group of actors and directors accused of being communists and refused to testify before HUAC.
What is the Hollywood Ten?
200
Leader of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
Pledged economic, political, and military support to any nation facing outside/communist threats?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
Theory that if communism spread in Southeast Asia the entire region would fall to communism.
What is the domino theory?
200
Caused population growth following WWII.
What is the baby boom?
200
Investigative committee that held hearings regarding alleged communists in American society and government.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee?
300
Term used to describe the communist/Soviet influence over Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Helped rebuild European economies following WWII to help resist communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
Division between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
300
Region of the United States that attracted population following WWII.
What is the Sunbelt?
300
Required by many government agencies and American businesses.
What are loyalty oaths?
400
Conference where the Allied powers agreed to partition Germany and start the United Nations.
What is Yalta?
400
American and Western European military alliance.
What is NATO?
400
War in which the United States entered with UN forces and achieved its limited objective.
What is the Korean War?
400
Republican president during most of the 1950s.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
400
State Department official and former FDR adviser accused of being a Soviet spy.
Who is Alger Hiss?
500
Conference where Truman and Stalin disagreed over reparations and Truman decided to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
500
Caused by Stalin blockading West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
Relieved of his duties due to subordination during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
500
Soviet Satellite launched in 1957 that sparked the space race.
What is Sputnik?
500
Caused the downfall of Senator McCarthy.
What are the McCarthy-Army Hearings.
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