The Cold War
A nuclear weapon, first developed by the Americans, that had explosive power 100x greater than Hiroshima
What was the "H-bomb"?
A youthful, handsome, & charismatic candidate who beat Richard Nixon in 1960
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The country that took over Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia after WWII.
Who was the U.S.S.R (or the Soviets)?
A war started by North Korea in 1950 to unite the country under Communist rule
What was the Korean War?
A massive rise in the birth rate following WWII until 1964
What was the "baby boom"?
A domestic policy created by FDR to get America through the great depression
What was the New Deal?
An air lift bringing food and supplies into West Berlin during Soviet's blockade on the city
What was the Berlin airlift?
Created the New Deal that kept expanding with each succeeding president
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Created a Communist state in Cuba in 1959
Who was Fidel Castro?
A war lasting from 1939 to 1945 between the Allied forces and Axis powers
What was WWII?
A full-time evangelist who led large crusades across the country
Who was Billy Graham?
A legislative program that included the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress
What was the "New Frontier"?
The theory that if one non-Communist nation in Indochina fell, other nations around that one would fall
What is the domino theory?
Daily Double
Who was Harry Truman?
A policy Truman undertook that threatened further Communist aggression would be resisted.
What is the Truman Doctrine (or containment)?
Hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991
What was the "Cold War"?
A shift in culture, from producing (working hard) to consuming goods, that let to a doubling of the GNP
What was American consumerism?
Conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings
What is "Dynamic Conservatism"?
A free city surrounded by communist areas controlled by the USSR
What is West Berlin?
He won the presidency in 1952 and served for two terms
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
An Organization created by 10 Western European countries, the US, and Canada to hold back Communism.
What was NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
A war that started slowly, with military advisors being sent by both Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations
What was the Vietnam War?
Daily Double
What was the 1955 bus boycott (in Montgomery, Alabama)?
A question asked by John F. Kennedy in his famous inaugural speech that is still quoted today
What is "ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country"?
The realization that the USSR intended to spread and dominate the world
What started the Cold War?
Assumed the presidency when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
A phenomenon of making accusations of treason without proper evidence and spreading fear of Communists using lies and distortion
What is McCarthyism?
Resulted in Communist China sending thousands of troops to rescue North Korea
What was MacArthur's invasion of Inchon?
The largest civil rights protest in U.S. history led by Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the March on Washington?
The end of Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech during the March on Washington.
What was "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"?