People
Dictator of Russia after Stalin
Who is Nikita Kruschev?
an actual wall that divided Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
something that orbits another thing
What is a satellite?
an invention that changed American life
What is the television?
the nickname of the Korean Conflict because most people didn't pay much attention to it or its veterans
What is the Forgotten War?
The dictator of Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
an invisible line in Europe that separated communist countries from non-communist countries
What is the Iron Curtain?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
an area close to a city but with fewer people and bigger yards that were being set up in the 1950's
What is a suburb?
What is North Korea invaded South Korea?
became president of the United States in 1961
Who is John F. Kennedy
the time when the Soviet Union and America were trying to out do the other in space, weapons, and everything else
What is the Cold War?
the American run attempt to overthrow the Cuban government which failed terribly
What is the Bay of Pigs?
What is a commute?
the general who was called back by President Truman when he invaded China even though the President had told him not to do that
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
the President of the United States during the 1950's
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
an international organization working for world peace
What is the United Nations?
a word used today to describe false accusations made to damage people because of their political beliefs
What is McCarthyism?
special loans from the government helped these people and their families buy new homes
Who are veterans?
this is what we call the troops that were mostly made up of Americans who fought on the side of South Korea during the conflict
What are the United Nations Forces?
a senator who tried to find communists in America
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
a program that provided food and maaterials to European countries so they could rebuild after the war
What is the Marshall Plan?
what it is called when one country's navy won't let ships enter an area
What is a blockade?
what we call the race that started when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into space before the United States was capable of doing the same
What is the space race?
this is who won the Korean Conflict
Who is no one?