Racing to a New Era
This was a race between the United States and the Soviet Union to build more and better weapons.
What is an Arms Race?
An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
This bill offered veterans money for school, as well as loans for houses, farms, and business.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
Franklin D. Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (UK), and Joseph Stalin (USSR) met at this conference to discuss post-war peace.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This line divides North Korea from South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The world's first artificial satellite launch by the USSR.
What is Sputnik?
This group won the Chinese Civil War under Mao Zedong.
Who is the Communist?
The preventing of the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world.
What is Containment?
Like Germany, this Asian nation was also divided between US and Soviet control following WWII.
What is Korea?
The Korean War ended in this.
What is a cease fire?
The United States created this organization in response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.
What is NASA?
These were war fought within and between countries with the US and Soviet's supporting opposite sides rather than warring against each other directly.
What are Proxy Wars?
This policy provided aid to help foreign countries fight communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Harry Truman (US), Winston Churchill (UK), and Joseph Stalin (USSR) met at his conference to discuss peace after WWII.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
General MacArthur wanted the US to attack this country after they sent hundreds of thousands of troops across the border to fight in the Korean War.
What is China?
This was the name given when the US and Soviets competed in the Moscow Olympics and the United States Hockey team surprisingly defeated the superior Soviet team.
What is the "Miracle on Ice"?
This is the struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union with no direct conflict or wars between the two nations.
What is the Cold War?
this is a term to describe the willingness to go to the brink of war to oppose communism.
What is Brinkmanship?
this refers to post-WWII when young men returned to the US and get married and start families which lead to very high birth rates.
What is the baby boom?
These were the two main reasons the US got involved in the Korean War.
What is the invasion of South Korea and to stop the spread of communism?
This was the first man in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This was an Alliance of nations to oppose the USSR expansion into western Europe with the agreement that if one of these nations is attacked all within the alliance will go to war for them.
What is NATO?
This person, and her siblings, went to college on the GI Bill of Rights as her father was a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force.
Who is Mrs. Boatwright?
This is Mr. Boatwright's favorite WWII movie made by Clint Eastwood which tells of the battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view.
What is Letters from Iwo Jima?
Jack Allen, from Athens, AL, was an army engineer who survived a mine explosion and lost one of his legs in the Korean War. He knows Mrs. Boatwright because...
He is her grandfather.