believed Truman unnecessarily dragged the US into countless conflit between the Soivet Union, was president between 1953-1961
Who is President Eisenhower
100
a national policy of staying out of politcal or economic relations with other countries
*Neutrality Act of 1930s
What is isolationism
100
The date the Cold War began
What is 1947
100
made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of government
What is the Smith Act
100
What students had planned to do in case of a nuclear attack
What is duck and cover
200
CIA agent who was caught spying on USSR- plane was shot down
Who is Gary Powers
200
the fear that communists both outside and inside America were working to destroy American life
What is the Red Scare
200
Stopped all highway, railway, and waterway traffic form West Berlin to Berlin-June 1948
What is the Berlin Crisis
200
Stalin said he would not allow for the Soviet "satellite nations" to have free democratic election-this was broken
What is the Yalta agreement
200
This drug was widely popular throughout the 1950s
What are tranquilizers
300
Leader of Soviet Union, was NOT suspicious or cruel, oversaw the creation of the hydrogen bomb
Who is Nikita Khrushev
300
Winston Churchill said this was essentially divided into two parts: one side communist, the other democratic
What is the iron curtain
300
The year the first Hydrogen bomb was developed
What happened in 1952
300
British helped Greece government fight communist guerrillas-America promised it would support free countries to fight communism. Showed that America was prepared to fight communism
What is the truman doctrine
300
The amount the gross national product grew between the 1950s and the 1960s
What is $300 billion
400
the person behind the development of the Atomic bomb
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer
400
a political theory, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is communism
400
the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration
What was the space race
400
massive economic aid plan for Europe to help them recover form the damage caused by war- helped contain communism. Helped establish allies and foreign markets
What is the Marshall plan
400
the first spacecraft to orbit the earth-USSR
What was the Sputnik
500
Had the idea of containment- a policy of holding back the expansion of influence of communism by creation of strategic alliances. Coincided with the truman doctrine
Who is G.F Kennedy
500
the act of keeping something harmful under control or within limits (communism)
What is containment
500
US and Britain supplied West Berlin with food, fuel, medical supplies, clothes, and toys. Goal was to protect non-communist parts
What is the Berlin Airlift
500
announced in a speech to congress on January 5, 1957. Required congress to yield its war marketing power to the president so the president could take immediate military action
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine
500
the amount of US soldiers that saw service during the Korean war