Origins of the Cold War
Us offered this as economic aid to weak European countries to promote rebuilding
What is the use of Marshall Plan
When allies used planes to give West Berlin resources due to the blockade. The blockade was to starve West Berlin into falling to communism
What is Berlin Airlift
This Republican Senator was an anti-communist who lost credibility from accusing just about everyone of being a communist
Who is Joseph McCarthy
This person was playing chicken with JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev
Women are displaced from work for this reason after the Cold War.
What are veterans returning to home
The plan for CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow the new Communist-Revolutionary leader, Castro. This was an extreme embarrassment to the US when nothing went as planned.
What Is The bay of pigs
This was the symbol of the Cold War
What is The Berlin wall
This president wanted to keep the Soviet communist influence from spreading in Europe.
Who is Truman
This was police action after WWII used to replace the League of Nations. Countries included the US, Britain, France, China, USSR along with 50 other countries.
What is the United Nations?
This book helped launch the modern women’s rights movement in the early 60’s.
What is Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
1962, Cuba was receiving Soviet weapons, including nuclear missiles. When US spy planes captured photos of missile silos, JFK responded with a quarantine/blockade of Cuba.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis
paid part of college tuition; more educated workforce = economic growth
What is the GI Bill
Air pilot graduated from Clemson and Greenville high school who was shot down flying over cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr
This stated that the US would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country. This is an extension of the containment policy outside of Europe.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine
This program was the government's investment in education that expanded the middle class and narrowed the gap between rich and poor.
What is Education Programs
Resulted in an emphasis on education, especially in math and science (National Defense Education Act) movie Oct. Sky
What is Sputnik
the fear of communism; reflected in building of bomb shelters as well as in the pop culture.
What is the 2nd Red Scare
This person was the dictator of china that had support of the peasants
Mao Zedong
A military defensive alliance aimed in response to the fear of the Soviets. This is the first alliance the US had ever joined.
What is NATO?
This changes the demographic patterns
What is the expansion of highways
The incident where the USSR shot down a US spy plane over the Soviet Union.
What is The U2 Incident
This war started and stopped at the 38th parallel
What is the Korean War
This person was playing chicken with JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Khrushchev
In 1970 President Carter negotiated a peace talk in the Middle East between Israel and Egypt.
What are the Camp David Accords?
Great Migration of the 50’s
What is the "White Flight"