After WW2
Early Cold War
White Picket Fences
Vietnam
Welcome to the Sixties
100

What was the policy of sending economic aid to assist Europe after WWII?

Marshall Plan

100

This U.S. foreign policy, named after a president, aimed to provide aid to countries resisting communism.

What is the Truman Doctrine?

100

Rapid rise of births following the end of World War II

What is the baby boom

100

Why did the Vietnam War start

Communists wanted to take over Vietnam
100

Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?

John F. Kennedy

200

What is the multinational organization created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe?

NATO

200

What proxy war was fought between 1950 - 1953 during the Cold War era?

The Korean War

200

Economic principle that people are buying more goods 

What is consumerism 

200

What was the name of the spark that started American involvement in Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin

200

This political party had a chaotic nominating convention in 1968 leading to their loss in the Presidential election

What is the Democratic Party

300

What was the name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations?

The Warsaw Pact

300

American fear of communism was nicknamed this.

What is the red scare

300

President for a majority of the 1950's

Who is Dwight Eisenhower (IKE)

300

What was the main goal for the U.S. in the Vietnam War?

To stop the spread of Communism

300

President that took over for Kennedy after his assassination 

Who is Lyndon Johnson

400

What was the phrase that Churchill used to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union?

The Iron Curtain

400

This US Senator terrorized people suspected of being a communist

Who is Joseph McCarthy

400

Name for the idea that nuclear world would lead to the end of the world  

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

400

The turning point of the Vietnam War?

Tet Offensive

400

What was the US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro and take over Cuba in 1961?

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

500

Spies that were put to death for leaking nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

Who are the Rosenburgs

500

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)

500

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?

500
Name for the wind-down of American involvement in Vietnam

Vietnamization

500

Attempt in the 1960's to bring people out of poverty

What is the Great Society