Cold War Vocab
Stop the spread of communism
containment
Led the USSR during the early standoff and Berlin blockade.
Stalin
Postwar European and North American defensive military alliance
NATO
Years of World War Two
1939-1945
This actress just married Tom Holland.
Zendaya
A class of underprivileged Americans whose problems went unnoticed by the rest of society in the 1950s.
Invisible poor
This person is credited for mass producing affordable homes
William Levitt
This plan was giving economic assistance to help rebuild Europe.
Marshall Plan
President for the majority of WW2
FDR
This team won the 2020 Super Bowl.
Kansas City Chiefs
A committee that investigated disloyalty and rebel activity of people suspected of having communist ties. Famous for investigating the Hollywood 10
HUAC
This individual did not seek re-election so Adlai Stevenson is nominated as the Democratic nominee.
Truman
This piece of legislation helped returning WW2 vets purchase homes, go to college or vocational schools, buy farmland, and start businesses.
GI Bill
Purpose of this project was to develop atomic weapons for the U.S. military
Manhatten Project
If you watch the Marvel movies in chronological order, which movie would you watch first?
Captain America: the First Avenger
the ideological, political, and physical boundary dividing the Soviet Union and its satellite nations from democratic countries
Iron Curtain
This person gave a speech "Checkers" denying he used funds illegally
Nixon
U.S. foreign policy stating that any Middle Eastern nation will be given economic aid to resist communism
Eisenhower Doctrine
The federal government initiated the bracero program during WW2 in an effort to:
Address the urgent need for agricultural laborers in the U.S.
Which famous actor voiced the character of Lightning McQueen in the Cars movie franchise?
Owen Wilson
Term for areas of new housing tracts just outside the city limits.
Suburbs/Suburbia
This person developed the polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk
A Soviet-led political and military alliance of Eastern European communist nations formed to counter NATO
Warsaw Pact
What encouraged Hitler to begin taking control of neighboring countries?
the League of Nations’ unwillingness to take action against territorial expansion by Japan or Italy
In the movie "Finding Nemo", what was Marlin’s wife/Nemo's mother's name?
Coral