Early Cold War
A multinational organization set up to ensure diplomacy and create a lasting peace
What is the United Nations
The line designated as the separation between North Korea and South Korea following WW2
What is the 38th Parallel?
A buzzword used to describe accusations of communism made by Joseph McCarthy during the early 1950s
What is McCarthyism?
The sharp increase in the birth rate of the United States from 1946-1965
What is the Baby Boom?
Southern democrats opposed to civil rights legislation
What are Dixiecrats?
An imaginary border between capitalist West and communist East
What is the Iron Curtain?
The zone separating North and South Korea post-Korean war to present
What is Demilitarized Zone?
Was set up as a House of Representatives committee to investigate “subversive” or communist activities
What is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC)?
Extra income available to spend on non-necessities
What is Disposable Income?
The estimated level of income needed to live comfortably
What is the Poverty Line?
A declaration that the U.S. would help any country threatened by communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Because of the communist influence of the Cold War, this county is still an isolated, autocratic, dictatorship
What is North Korea?
Term used to describe the hysteria over the perceived threat of communism in the United States
What is the Red Scare?
A law that provided benefits to veterans after WW2
What is the G.I. Bill?
A term used to describe the “traditional,” middle-class family that consisted of a breadwinner father, homemaking mother, and kids
What is the Nuclear Family?
U.S. policy to respond to communist aggression with overwhelming force
What is Massive Retaliation?
Becomes president in 1953 and withdraws American troops from Korea
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Drills students in schools were taught in case of a nuclear attack
What are Duck & Cover Drills?
What are Suburbs?
Behaving in compliance with socially accepted behaviors or norms
What is Conformity?
The belief that an arms race of nuclear weapons would lead to neither side actually using their weapons
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
USSR puppet leader of Korea whose dynasty still rules North Korea today
Who is Kim Il Sung?
Spies for the USSR who were arrested, convicted, and executed
Invented the injectable polio vaccine
Who is Jonas Salk?
Policy of blending economic conservatism with some activism
What is Dynamic Conservatism?