Cold War Origins
What is containment
Ten Western European nations came together to form a defensive military alliance called _____________.
What is NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This married couple were accused of being super spies for the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
This type of residential housing includes rows and rows of standardized homes built on treeless lots.
What is suburban housing?
Prejudice against Mexican-Americans involving the burial of a WWII hero.
What is the Longoria Incident?
Churchill's description of the division in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Prior to the Korean War, what type of government did the People's Republic of China establish?
What is communism?
Under Eisenhower's Administration, he developed this policy, that if provoked, the U.S. would be willing to go to an all-out war.
What is the Policy of Brinkmanship?
This type of business expansion occurs when a company offers similar services in multiple locations.
What is a franchise?
Huge migration of middle class White Americans from the cities to the suburbs.
What is the Great White Flight?
Resulted in the U.S. economic and military aid for Greece & Turkey to the tune of $400 million.
Truman Doctrine
What is the 38th parallel?
This military alliance was developed to link seven Eastern European countries with the Soviet Union out of fear from NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Employees who did not rebel or think creatively and experienced a loss of individuality was known as?
What is Social Conformity?
For White Americans: bowling, golf, fishing, 3D Movies, and reading-lots of reading were types of...
Under this, European aid was "not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos."
Its responsibility was to investigate possible Communist influence primarily in the movie industry.
What is the HUAC? House Un-American Activities Committee
The Space Race and U2 Spy Planes increased significant ___________ between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the late 1950's.
What is tension?
Advances in medicine, men home from war, and fighting communism are theories that led to this...
What is the Baby Boom?
The effort by U.S. and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin airlift?
These ten men refused to testify at hearings about possible communism in the movies, believing that was unconstitutional.
Who are the "Hollywood Ten"?
Non-evidence based accusations of the disloyalty of some was called in the early 1950's
What is McCarthyism?
Sadly, this eliminated federal economic support for Native Americans and discontinued the reservation system.
What is the Termination Policy?
Followers of this movement did not want to conform to the White American culture of television, fashion and life in the suburbs.
Who are beatniks?