Post WW II
Post WW II- MORE
1950's Culture
Cold War, Pt. 1
Cold War, Pt. 2
100
Name given to the political borders that had developed from Eastern Europe falling under the influence of the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
100
The first search for communist influences within the U.S.-during the 1920's.
What is the Red Scare?
100
With the fear of nuclear war, these became fixtures in many American backyards.
What is a bomb shelter?
100
What military engagement was the U.S. involved in during the 1960's?
What is the Vietnam War?
100
Built in 1961, it became a physical symbol of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
The man that first used the term "Iron Curtain".
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
This Asian nation was under the military jurisdiction of General MacArthur
What is Japan?
200
Term that describes the 1950's due to the mass production of identical products or lacks diversity.
What is Conformity?
200
International relations problem involving the U.S. and U.S.S.R. over the proximity of nuclear missiles.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Name for Vietnamese guerilla fighters.
What is the Vietcong?
300
Gov.'t grants and loans to help returning soldiers buy homes and go to college.
What is the GI Bill?
300
The term for the generation following WW II.
What is the Baby Boomers?
300
Search for communists within American gov.'t/society during the 1950's, named after the senator that led it.
What is McCarthyism?
300
CIA-backed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade and start a revolution in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
Leader of the North Vietnamese/Vietcong.
What is Ho Chi Minh?
400
Name of the military alliance that develops between the U.S. and its European Allies.
What is NATO?
400
Economic plan to rebuild Europe after WW II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
President that built the modern U.S. highway interstate system.
Who is Eisenhower?
400
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is Krushchev?
400
Became President after JFK's assassination.
What is LBJ (Johnson)?
500
Foreign policy stating that the U.S would not allow the spread of communism.
What is "containment"? What is the Truman Doctrine?- Double
500
The name of the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
Was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance muscians
Who is Elvis Presley?
500
American spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.
What is the U-2/U-2 Incident?
500
Name of law passed by Congress following the Vietnam War which put a limit on the President's power over the use of the military
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
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