Building a new World
This president pushed for a new global system to prevent another war and depression.
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt
This 1945 conference brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to plan postwar Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The 1946 message by a U.S. diplomat that explained Soviet behavior and influenced American policy.
What is the Long Telegram
The former WWII general president in 1953 and led U.S. Cold War policy.
Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?
The period filled with fear and suspicion about communism spread across the U.S. in the late 1940s and 1950s.
What is the Red Scare?
This 1944 conference in New Hampshire created a new global economic system.
What is the Bretton Wood Conference?
This Country caused tension due to both Communist and non-Communist governments claiming control
What is Poland?
The policy aimed to stop the spread of communism without going to war.
What is Containment?
The policy which threatened overwhelming nuclear force to stop aggression.
What is Massive retaliation?
The program which saw the screening of millions of federal employees for possible disloyalty to the U.S.
What is the Truman Loyalty Review Program?
This organization helps rebuild countries and fund development projects.
What is the World Bank?
This agreement promised free elections in liberated European nations.
What is the Declaration of Liberated Europe?
The U.S. president who asked Congress for $400 million to help Greece and Turkey resist communism.
Who is Harry S Truman?
The risky strategy which involved pushing conflicts to the edge of war to force an opponent to back down.
What is brinkmanship?
The congressional committee which investigated suspected communists in government and Hollywood.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
This institution helps countries deal with trade deficits and support developing countries
What is the International Monetary Fund?
Germany and Berlin were divided into this number of zones after WWII.
What is 4?
The policy promised U.S. support for countries resisting communism worldwide.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The three-part nuclear system included bombers, land-based missiles, and submarines.
What is the nuclear triad?
The ten Hollywood figures who refused to testify before Congress and were later blacklisted.
Who are the Hollywood ten?
This system made the U.S. dollar the world’s reserve currency and tied it to gold
This period of tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union lasted from about 1946 to 1990.
What is the Cold War
The program which gave billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe and limit communism’s appeal.
What is the Marshall plan
The long-range bomber, first revealed in 1955, could carry nuclear weapons across continents.
What is a B-52 bomber?
the practice of making accusations of disloyalty without solid evidence, named after a U.S. senator.
What is McCarthyism?