Terms
Widespread fear of communism found after WWI and WWII
What is Red Scare
Massive rise in the population after WWII
What is Baby Boom
Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white male
What is Rosa Parks
Communist Leader of Cuba
What is Fidel Castro
Built in 1961 to prevent refugees escaping to the West
What is the Berlin Wall
Policy of resistance to further Communist aggression
What is containment
Post war tension between the US and the Soviet Union
What is Cold War
Gave a famous speech at the March on Washington protest
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
Communist Leader of China
What is Mao Zedong
1961 disastrous operation against Cuba
What is Bay of Pigs
Belief that if one nation falls to communism it will lead to others falling
What is domino theory
Used spies to to gain info on foreign matters
What is Central Intelligence Agency
First full-time evangelist for Youth for Christ
What is Billy Graham
Nationalist Leader of China
What is Chiang Kai-shek
Group that sent volunteers overseas to help other nations
What is Peace Corps
Weapon developed in 1952 was more powerful than the atomic bomb
What is the hydrogen bomb
Phrase that best explains postwar society in America? Hint: C.C.
What is Consumer Culture
Was unsuccessful in proving the existence of Communists in the state department
What is Joseph McCarthy
Anti-Communist Leader in South Vietnam
What is Ho Chi Minh
Helped to restore the economies of Western Europe
What is the Marshall Plan
Name for the separation of Eastern Europe from Western Europe
What is Iron Curtain
Idea of Communistic and capitalistic nations existing side by side.
What is peaceful coexistence
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
What is Nikita Krushchev
Communist Leader in North Vietnam
What is Ngo Dinh Diem
Public schools should not be segregated by race was decided by this case
What is Brown vs. Board of Education