1st Hour Words
The __________ was a political boundary dividing Europe into two areas from the end of WW2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Iron Curtain
The U.S. used the _______ to investigate disloyalty.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
The average annual income per person
What is Per capita income?
Name of the term that means increase in birth rate.
What is Baby Boom?
President Eisenhower’s approach to government
What is Modern Republicanism?
The policy created by George F. Kennan during the cold war.
What is containment?
This was used as a boundary between North and South Korea after the war.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This Soviet Union launch in 1957 made the technology gap apparent.
What is Sputnik?
A social and economic transition from wartime economy to peacetime economy.
What is reconversion?
This deal in 1949 made minimum wage higher.
This treaty has original members of Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, United Kingdom and United States.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests.
What is brinkmanship?
This incident shattered the U.S.’s confidence which ensured they were invulnerable to attack.
U-2 Incident
Music consisting of the use of electric guitars and a strong rhythm.
What is Rock and Roll?
This was passed by Congress when strikes impacted industries that affected the national interest.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947?
Considered the most important political issue of the postwar period.
What is the Cold War?
A "list" you could be put on during the ¨Red¨ scare.
What is a blacklist?
This can carry multiple warheads in it and are much faster and more precise than a traditional ballistic missile.
What are Intercontinental ballistic missiles?
Law also referred to as the Serviceman's Adjustment Act.
What is GI Bill of Rights?
Official name for NASA
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
President Truman signed this act on April 3, 1948.
What is the Marshall plan?
This law passed in 1952, even though the President vetoed it.
What is the McCarran-Walter Act?
This could be used in all different kinds of electronics like computers, radios, etc.
What are transistors?
A person who criticized american society as apathetic during the 1950's and 60's.
This act granted millions to state schools for building science and foreign language facilities
What is the National Defense Education Act?