What is the restriction of how much people can buy called?
Rationing
100
What were two items rationed?
Meat and Tea
100
What is a system where the government controls the production of goods and people are not free?
Communism
100
Distrust between America and the Soviet Union about different beliefs and political systems led to ________.
The Cold War
100
The Cold War was called the Cold War because it never ________.
evolved fighting
200
Who went to work in jobs that typically belonged to men?
Women
200
Who was the name of the fictional character that appeared on government posters encouraging women to help with the war effort?
Rosie the Riveter
200
Countries controlled by the Soviet Union would not let people leave. Winston Churchill stated that an __________ had fallen across Europe.
Iron Curtain
200
When Winston Churchill said their was an Iron Curtain he meant that there was a dividing line between ______ and _____ Europe.
Eastern and Western
200
The United wanted to stop the spread of ________.
Communism
300
What word means selected as the best?
Elite
300
What was the name of a group of African American pilots that trained at the Tuskegee institute in Alabama?
Tuskegee Airman
300
What operation of U.S and Allied airplanes delivered supplies to West Berlin for 321 days?
Berlin Airlift
300
When North Korea invaded South Korea, it resulted in the __________.
Korean War
300
The Korean War ended in a stalemate. What dose that mean?
It means it ended in a tie
400
What was an official paper telling the aims or principles of a group?
Charter
400
What are the rights of every person to freely speak, have food,clothing,and shelter?
Human Rights
400
What alliance did the U.S and European countries form for protection against communist aggression?
N.A.T.O
400
N.A.T.O stated that they would help each other in the event of what?
War
400
Americans feared that Communist spies could be in the U.S. In 1950 Senator __________ from Wisconsin accused the state department officials of being Communists.
Joseph McCarthy
500
What is the international organization to help keep peace in the future?
United Nations
500
What were the two main goals of the United Nations?
World Peace and protect human rights
500
The term ________ was used to describe how McCarthy made charges without real evidence.
McCarthyism
500
Who as the head of the Soviet Union's Communist Party?
Nikita Khrushchev
500
What was it called when countries built tons of weapons to store them in case of war?