People
Technology
Politics
Commies
Potpourri
100

This couple were executed for betraying U.S. atomic secrets.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

100

This 1957 technology scared Americans, and motivated changes to education.

Sputnik

100

This Congressional body investigated Alger Hiss.

HUAC

100

He won the 1949 Civil War that was begun before WW2.

Mao Zedong

100

Collective Security agreement, 1949.

NATO

200

He masterminded the landing at Inchon, 1950.

Douglas MacArthur

200

The U2 was this kind of surveillance technology.

High-altitude aircraft

200

A vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government is called this, after the junior Senator from WI.

McCarthyism

200

He took over the USSR after Stalin died.

Nikita Khrushchev

200

Collective security agreement, 1955.

Warsaw Pact

300

He developed the vaccine for Polio.

Jonas Salk

300

Polaris was the first kind of this technology.

Sub-launched missile.

300

U.S. will help democracies under communist threat.

Truman Doctrine

300

He claimed to have a list of 205 communists in the U.S. State Dept.

Joseph McCarthy

300

Britain and France were rebuffed by the U.S. as a result of this.

Suez Crisis

400

He recommended the policy of Brinkmanship.

John Foster Dulles

400

This was the name of the first computer.

ENIAC

400

This overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Brown v. Board (1954)

400

This was the name given to a group of journalists and screenwriters who testified before the HUAC.

Hollywood Ten

400

He wrote Baby and Child Care

Benjamin Spock

500

He was the first to advance the policy of Containment.

George Kennan

500

Explorer 1 was the first American version of this kind of technology.

Satellite

500

This as the largest public works project in U.S. history.

Interstate Highway Act

500

He was the communist leader who took over Cuba in 1958.

Fidel Castro

500

These showed that there really were communists in the U.S. State Department.

Venona Papers

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