After WW2
What was the policy of sending economic aid to assist Europe after WWII?
Marshall Plan
This U.S. foreign policy, named after a president, aimed to provide aid to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This government program offered low-interest loans to veterans, helping them buy homes and attend college.
What is the GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
This American government agency was established in 1958 in direct response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik.
What is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)?
Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?
John F. Kennedy
What is the multinational organization created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe?
NATO
What proxy war was fought between 1950 - 1953 during the Cold War era?
The Korean War
This interstate infrastructure project, initiated in 1956, boosted suburbanization and economic growth.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
What was the first successful satellite in space?
Sputnik
This Soviet leader often clashed with U.S. leaders during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
What was the name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations?
The Warsaw Pact
This line of latitude became the dividing line between North and South Korea after World War II.
What is the 38th parallel?
This senator became infamous for his anti-communist witch hunts in the early 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The U.S. encouraged students to pursue careers in which fields though additional funding and showcasing televised moon landings and space exploration milestones.
What is Math and Science?
In exchange for removing Soviet missiles from Cuba, the U.S. secretly agreed to remove its missiles from this country.
What is Turkey?
What was the phrase that Churchill used to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union?
The Iron Curtain
This international organization led the effort to defend South Korea from communist forces.
What is the United Nations?
Who were the spies that were executed for stealing secrets from the Manhattan Project?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
During the Space Race the United States wins as it is the first country to do what?
Land a Man on the Moon (1969)
What was the US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
What was the event that saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city?
The Berlin Airlift
What country fell to communism in 1949 and was the other major communist nation of the world during the Cold War?
China.
(People's Republic of China)
These young people listened to Rock and Roll music and wrote contrarian literary works in the 1950s and 1960s that rejected American materialism and capitalism.
Who are the Beat Generation?
This astronaut became the first American to orbit the Earth during the Friendship 7 mission in 1962.
Who is John Glenn?
This construction in 1961 became a symbol of the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?