Cold War Causes
The policy of not allowing communism to expand beyond its current borders.
What is containment?
The US Senator from Wisconsin that conducted a witch hunt, seeking out communists in the US government throughout the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Who is Elvis Presley?
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The military alliance of Western Europe and North American countries.
What is NATO?
The policy of giving military and economic aid to countries resisting being taken over by communist threats.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The group of actors and screenwriters that were accused of being communists by the US Congress.
Who are the Hollywood 10?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The idea that if nuclear weapons are used, both sides of a nuclear conflict will be destroyed.
What is mutually assured destruction?
The military alliance of Eastern European countries aligned with the Soviet Union.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Also known as the European Recovery Program, this gave Europe $13 billion to help rebuild the continent following World War 2.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The term for a group of people that should be avoided or excluded from society.
What is blacklist?
This form of media became the most popular in America, having 53 million units sold by 1953.
The first satellite to orbit Earth.
What is sputnik?
What is the baby boom?
After the Soviet Union implemented a blockade on the city of Berlin, this strategy was used to get resources into the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The Congressional committee that conducted hearings for individuals accused of being communists.
What is HUAC or House Un-American Activities Committee?
This Hollywood actor became arguably the most famous of the decade with his iconic roles in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant before his early death in 1955.
Who is James Dean?
Weapons that allow a country to launch long distance projectiles.
What are intercontinental ballistic missiles?
Established by President Truman in 1947 to investigate suspected communists.
What are Loyalty Review Boards?
The idea that the United States needs to always present the threat of a nuclear attack without ever crossing the line of using nuclear weapons.
What is brinkmanship?
The couple that were found guilty of being spies for the Soviet Union and then were executed.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs are credited with starting this literary/art movement that focused on non-conformity and rejecting mainstream culture.
What is the Beatnik Movement?
The first American to orbit Earth.
Who is John Glenn?
What are Levittowns?