McCarthyism
True or False: We have been studying the First Red Scare in class.
What is False?
The name of the age after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the Nuclear Age?
A military alliance made up of primarily Western Democratic countries.
NATO
Korea and Vietnam both belong to which continent?
Asia
In what decade did McCarthyism take place?
What are the 1950s?
When the nuclear age began.
What is 1945?
Calls for the elimination of private property and social classes.
What is communism?
Established in 1945 to promote peace.
What is the United Nations?
This committee was created to investigate un-American activity.
What is HUAC?
What is a WMD?
What is a weapon of mass destruction?
Name of the program where the US provided 13 billion in aid after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This war led to a continued division at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
Many individuals were denied employment due to being suspected of having communist ties. What's that called?
What is blacklisting?
Which country detonated a nuclear weapon in 1949 becoming the world's second superpower?
What is the Soviet Union?
The name of America's foreign policy toward communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
Often called "America's only lost war."
A government official discovers that a small group of Hollywood writers are secretly promoting communist ideas in their work. This is known as..
What is subversion?
This concept refers to a situation in which nations maintain roughly equal strength to prevent any one country from dominating others.
What is the balance of power?
Announced in 1947, this U.S. policy pledged political, military, and economic support to countries resisting communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
Urban unrest, anti-war protests, and cuts to social programs are all what kind of issues/concerns?
What are domestic issues?