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?
Rapid rise of births following the end of World War II
What is the baby boom
Why did the Vietnam War start
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
Economic principle that people are buying more goods
What is consumerism
What was the name of the spark that started American involvement in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
This political party had a chaotic nominating convention in 1968 leading to their loss in the Presidential election
What is the Democratic Party
What was the name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations?
The Warsaw Pact
American fear of communism was nicknamed this.
What is the red scare
President for a majority of the 1950's
Who is Dwight Eisenhower (IKE)
What was the main goal for the U.S. in the Vietnam War?
To stop the spread of Communism
President that took over for Kennedy after his assassination
Who is Lyndon Johnson
What was the phrase that Churchill used to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union?
The Iron Curtain
This US Senator terrorized people suspected of being a communist
Who is Joseph McCarthy
Name for the idea that nuclear world would lead to the end of the world
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
The turning point of the Vietnam War?
Tet Offensive
What was the US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro and take over Cuba in 1961?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Spies that were put to death for leaking nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
Who are the Rosenburgs
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?
Vietnamization
Attempt in the 1960's to bring people out of poverty
What is the Great Society