Cold War
Iron Curtain
What was the imaginary dividing line between Democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe?
What was the baby boom?
The president who dropped the atomic bomb.
Who was Harry Truman?
Plan to give money to vulnerable countries to keep them from falling to Communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The dividing point between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
President Harry Truman's plan to contain Communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Rock and roll star during the 1950s.
Who was Elvis?
The president who made the Interstate Highway System.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
The side of Korea that was Communist.
What is North Korea?
A defense alliance between Democratic countries.
What was NATO?
Neighborhoods outside of the city
What is suburbia?
The Communist leader of Soviet Union at the end of WWII.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
The People's Republic of China
What was the name for Communist governed China?
The side of Korea that the United States supported.
What is South Korea?
Defense alliance between Communist countries.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Plan put into place by Eisenhower to increase commuting, trade and the ability to move the military if needed.
What was the Interstate Highway System?
The Communist leader of Cuba
Who was Fidel Castro?
Term for the Red Scare paranoia that was promoted by a U.S. Senator during the 50s.
What was McCarthyism?
The leader of the USA in Korea for most of the Korean War
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
The United States dropped supplies to the Allied side of Berlin in response to Stalin's blockade.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Group of people who rebelled against 50s culture and set the precedent for the hippy generation.
Who were the Beatniks?
The Communist leader of the Soviet Union who made the missile agreement with Castro.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
A defense alliance created to contain communism in South East Asia.
What is SEATO?
A war that is fought indirectly by two countries via two other countries. The Korean War was an example.
What is a proxy war?