Cold War Beginnings
This was the main reason the U.S. and Soviet Union became rivals after World War II.
What are opposing political and economic systems?
This policy was meant to stop communism from spreading to new countries
What is containment?
This leader won the Chinese Civil War and made China Communist.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This helped veterans pay for college, homes, and job training after World War II.
What is the GI Bill?
This policy meant going to the edge of war to force the other side to back down.
What is brinkmanship?
These were Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union after World War II.
What are satellite nations?
This policy promised U.S. support to people resisting communism or outside pressure
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This leader and his Nationalist supporters fled to Taiwan after losing mainland China
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This term describes the sharp increase in births after World War II
What is the baby boom?
This failed invasion of Cuba embarrassed President Kennedy.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Winston Churchill used this phrase to describe the division between Communist Eastern Europe and the West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This plan gave money to help rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This line divided North Korea and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
This type of community grew quickly because of mass-produced houses, cars, and government-backed loans.
Suburbs/ Levittown
These revealed Soviet missile sites in Cuba.
What are U-2 spy plane photographs?
This term means staying out of foreign conflicts, which the U.S. moved away from after World War II.
What is isolationism?
This happened when the U.S. flew supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked land routes
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This happened to the Korean War after Communist China entered the conflict.
What is the war became longer and turned into a stalemate?
This term means buying goods and products as a sign of comfort and success
What is consumerism?
This Johnson program aimed to fight poverty and improve American life through federal action
What is the Great Society?
This was the larger goal of Stalin's control over Eastern Europe after World War II.
What is creating a buffer zone/protecting the Soviet Union from invasion?
This alliance showed that the U.S. was willing to work with other countries to defend Western Europe.
What is NATO?
Truman fired this general because he wanted to expand the war into China and challenged presidential authority.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This movement criticized the pressure to conform in 1950s America
What is the beat movement?
This Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?