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Red Scare
100
Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, Over the next four years, Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy.
What was the Marshall Plan?
100

The belief that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would fall to communism next.

What was the domino theory?

100
a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe
What was The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
100
This country became the largest communism country in the world in 1949 when it defeated the pro-western opposition, that fled to the small island of Taiwan (Formosa).
What was China?
100

This was the Committee in the House of Representatives that was organized to question suspected communists in order to obtain names of those who may commit subversion against the US.

What was HUAC?

200
Truman asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece. He told Congress: "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures . . .
What was the Truman Doctrine?
200

President Eisenhower's policy for stopping another country with this threat to use nuclear force.

What was massive retaliation?

Also accept brinkmanship.

200
A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
What was the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact)?
200
from 1946 to 1964 almost 77 million babies are born in the United States.
What was the Baby Boom?
200

Senator became infamous because of his unsubstantiated but politically popular charges that the government was infiltrated with communist agents; his name become synonymous with character assassination and guilt by association for political gain

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

300

In July 1947, George F. Kennan defined this goal of U.S. foreign policy during the cold war in a long telegram: stop the spread of communism

What was containment?

300

This was a covert operation organized by the CIA as part of Kennedy's flexible response to the new communist government in Cuba. It was an utter disaster.

What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

300
On June 25, 1950, some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This started
What was Korean War?
300
this invention changes American culture, in 1946 there was 7,000 and by 1950 there was 50,000,000. It will go on to replace the radio as the primary source of home entertainment.
What was the Television?
300
American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In 1995, the U.S. government released a series of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which confirmed that one of the accused acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets
Who was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
400
In 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.
What was Berlin Airlift?
400

The presidential belief that America should extend military intervention and financial aid in the Middle East to contain communism.

What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?

400
This started the Space Race between the US and USSR.
What was Sputnik?
400
they were a generation of artists, writers, intellectuals, and musicians centered in San Francisco that came of age in the 1950's and early 1960's. Rejecting the predominant values of American society,
Who were The Beats, or Beatniks?
400

The nickname for Hollywood writers who refused to testify in front of the government about their communist connections.

Who were the Hollywood Ten?

500

This border between North and South Korea in 1953 was established near the original 38th parallel. 

What is the DMZ?

500

This president's belief that a flexible response could be used instead of brinkmanship. This belief system also believed that communist influenced in Latin America could be blocked by sending financial aid to help build non-communist country's economies. 

What was the Kennedy Doctrine?

500
Another name for the Arms Race, which led to a stockpiling of nuclear missiles as the US and USSR competed for supremacy.

What is nuclear proliferation?

500
Winston Churchill’s name for the division of Europe after WWII ended - the separation between Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
500
This became the nickname for the secret files used by HUAC to prove that diplomat Alger Hiss was lying about his communist ties.

What were the "Pumpkin Papers"?

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