document that explained faults of Soviets and advised solutions for containment
What is Kennan's Long Telegram
100
American couple was executed for conspiracy to commit espionage
What is Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
100
a war between South Korea + North Korea in which a United Nations force dominated by the United States of America intervened to support the South and China intervened to support the North
What is Korean War
100
people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964
What is baby boom?
100
a country that is officially independent but follows the policies set by another country
What is satellite country?
200
document that called for economic and military aid for countries falling to communism
What is Truman Doctrine?
200
American politician who became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion
What is Joseph McCarthy
200
the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control
What is Berlin Blockade?
200
a civil defense structure designed to provide protection during Cold War
What is bomb shelters?
200
the policy or process of preventing the expansion of a hostile power
What is containment?
300
the document that said that the US should help countries falling to poverty to avoid a domino effect
What is Marshall Plan?
300
an example of this is the CIA's intervention in Guatemala during the Cold War
What is Eisenhower's covert operations?
300
Truman seized the mines and ordered the miners back to work. After coal companies rejected a government settlement, the miners struck again
What is Truman and the miner's strike?
300
four large suburban developments created in the United States of America after World War II for returning veterans and their new families
What is Levittown?
300
secret plan made by 2 or more people to do something harmful or illegal
What is conspiracy?
400
the intergovernmental military alliance that was signed on April 4th, 1949
What is NATO?
400
secretary general was accused of spying for the Soviet Union and imprisoned
What is Alger Hiss
400
set up under the Civil Service Commision to deal with employees’ appeals
What is Loyalty Review Boards?
400
a network of freeways that forms a system and connection in the United States
What is Interstate Highway System?
400
radioactive particles dispersed by a nuclear explosion
What is fallout?
500
the Executive Order 9981 lead to this
What is Desegregation of the US Military?
500
the national security policy of the United States that reflected Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources
What is Eisenhower's New Look?
500
the practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome
What is brinksmanship?
500
ceased to exist on 26 December 1991 by declaration no. 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, acknowledging the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union
What is dissolution of the USSR?
500
a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within