This war started when North Korea invaded South Korea
What is the Korean War?
Who were the two superpowers during the Cold War?
Who is the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR)
Define the Red Scare
What is a hysteria over the threat of Communists (something like this)
He was the President of the United States at the Yalta Conference (1st conference)
Who is FDR
Define containment
What is stopping the spread of Communism
Who beat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 election?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike!)
He was the President of the United States during the Potsdam Conference (2nd conference)
Harry Truman
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947 (Hint: made by President Truman).
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What did the Federal Highway Act do? What major thing did it lead to?
Describe what the baby boom was?
What is a period marked by a significant increase in birth rates
What big thing did the Potsdam Conference do?
What is split Germany (and Berlin) into 4 pieces
What did the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) do?
What is provided schools funding for math and science
What factors led to the baby boom? (List at least 2)
What is no war, higher incomes (not in the Great Depression), less baby deaths from better healthcare
Describe what the iron curtain was?
What is it was a metaphor for the split/division between Western Democracy and Eastern Communism
Define the Cold War...
What is the era of economic, social, political, and military rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (something like this... was not an actual war!!!)
Describe the process of territorial gain during the Korean War. Also, how did the war end? Also, why did we get involved in the Korean War? Answer all 3!
Back and forth, stalemate, containment!
Describe the link between the baby boom and housing
What is mo babies, mo housing
Fully describe the event of the Berlin Airlift... (Why did we need to do the airlift, what was the airlift, what did the airlift show the world?)
What is Berlin Blockade, Airlift was when we flew 4,500 tons of food and supplies a day to the West Berlin citizens, and showed the world that we could successfully fight back against Communism