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Important Figures
Miscellaneous
100
A type of Music originating in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s featuring guitars, drums, and oftentimes vocals.
What is Rock & Roll?
100
A temporary increase in the national birth rate due to prosperity after WWII.
What is the Baby Boom?
100
Communist island nation in the Caribbean under Soviet influence, ruled by Fidel Castro.
What is Cuba?
100
The Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt, and later the 33rd President of the US from 1945-1953.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
100
A war between the communist nation of North Korea and its allies, and the UN-backed South Korea and its allies.
What was the Korean War?
200
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for various space exploration landmarks.
What is the Space Race?
200
The suburbs, the people living in them, or their way of life.
What is Suburbia?
200
The communist leader of Cuba from 1961-2011.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
A Senator from Wisconsin famous for his accusations of communists in the US government.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
200
The political and ideological boundary between the East and West in Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
300
A system where the country’s trade and industry are controlled by a private owner for profit rather than the state.
What is Capitalism?
300
The paranoia related to communism during the Cold War, named for Senator Joseph McCarthy.
What is McCarthyism?
300
A competition between countries in the development and accumulation of weapons.
What is an arms race?
300
A WWII general and subsequently the 34th President of the US from 1953-1961.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
The Soviet blockade of the allied-controlled portions of Berlin, which was bypassed by the allied supply drop known as the Berlin airlift.
What was the Berlin Blockade?
400
System of government based around common ownership and worker-dictated labor.
What is Communism?
400
Promoting different items for consumers.
What is Consumerism?
400
The foreign policy of the Truman administration that centered around combating the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
A general who served in WWI and WWII, as well as serving as the commander of UN forces in the Korean War from 1950-1951, when he was removed from command by President Truman.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
400
The gradual worsening of relations between China and the Soviet Union, causing them to form rival political blocs?
What was the Sino-Soviet Split?
500
Also known as the “beat generation”, a group of writers trying to change the way of conventional writing.
What is Beat Poetry?
500
A monetary aid plan by the United States to help rebuild Europe and its economy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
The Soviet leader from 1953-1964, famous for his involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the U2 incident.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
500
The communist leader of China from 1945-1976, his political policy later came to be known as Maoism.
Who was Mao Zedong?
500
A series of conflicts in Vietnam between communist guerrilla fighters backed by the USSR and China, against the French, and then later the US and its allies, which resulted in the formation of communist Vietnam.
What were the Indochina Wars/Vietnam Wars?
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