What was drawn as Stalin expanded the USSR by installing pro-Soviet governments in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania?
An "iron curtain"
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What required Communist Party members to register with the federal government and imposed immigration controls on Communist sympathizers?
Internal Security Act
100
Why did the US economy grow after WWII?
Increased consumer spending.
100
What form of government did North Korea have?
Communist
100
Who did John F Kennedy run against in the 1960 Presidential election?
Richard Nixon
200
What was the United States policy to prevent the spread of Communism?
Policy of Containment
200
What investigated more than 20,000 federal employees, firing many?
Loyalty Review Board
200
Which country had the highest standard of living in the world at this time?
United States
200
What kind of government did South Korea have?
free
200
What fact was an important issue in the 1960 election?
That JFK was Roman Catholic
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What impelled the US to support any nation with both military and economic aid if its stability was threatened by communism or the Soviet Union?
Truman Doctrine
300
Who claimed to have evidence of Communist infiltration of the US government and ruined many reputations and cost people their jobs?
Senator Joseph McCarthy
300
What came to be equated with success and status?
Consumerism (buying material goods)
300
How was South Korea's economy?
unstable
300
What was a failed invasion of Cuba?
Bay of Pigs
400
What pledged economic aid to help rebuild war torn Europe?
Marshall Plan
400
What investigated peace organizations, liberal groups, labor unions, the movie industry and individuals, leading to blacklists and other damages?
House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
400
What was the most popular mass media of this time?
TV
400
What did the US fear would happen to South Korea?
It would fall to Communism
400
What did Khrushchev do when Kennedy refused to have the Allied nations leave West Berlin?
built the Berlin Wall
500
What was a military alliance of 10 western European nations, the US and Canada that declared that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against all of them"?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
500
Why did people turn to religion, build bomb shelters, have air-raid drills, and support the arms race and space exploration?
American reaction to the possibility of nuclear war
500
The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic growth and rising social contentment and ____________________.
conformity
500
Where were the countries divided before the war and where are they divided now?
38th parallel
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What did Kennedy and Khrushchev agree to install so that they could directly contact each other in the event of a crisis?