Cold War Origins
This term describes the division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the democratic West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This senator claimed communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This war demonstrated the U.S. willingness to use military force to contain communism.
What is the Korean War?
This postwar trend saw Americans moving out of cities into residential areas.
What is suburbanization?
This Soviet satellite shocked Americans in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
After WWII, the Soviet Union expanded influence into these countries, often called “satellites.”
What are Eastern European nations?
This government committee investigated suspected communists in American society.
What is HUAC?
This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism, like Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Korean War showed that this policy could work through direct military support.
What is containment?
This infrastructure development made suburban growth possible.
What are highways/interstate systems?
Sputnik caused Americans to fear Soviet superiority in this area.
What is technology or science?
This major difference between the U.S. and USSR created tension: capitalism vs this system.
What is communism?
This earlier event in the 1920s most closely resembled McCarthy-era fear and arrests.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
These two events are associated with rising tensions between the U.S. and Cuba.
What are the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis?
Many 1950s advertisements portrayed women primarily in this role.
What is homemaker/housewife?
The U.S. responded by increasing funding for this subject in schools.
What is science and math education?
One reason for U.S. distrust of the USSR was their withdrawal from this global conflict early on.
What is World War I?
McCarthyism led to increased pressure for Americans to conform to these values.
What are traditional American values?
Truman believed the U.S. must act whenever this was threatened anywhere in the world.
What is freedom or liberty?
The U.S. supported this country in 1948 as part of its containment policy.
What is Greece?
This social trend involved middle-class white families leaving cities for suburbs.
What is white flight?
This U.S. agency was created to compete in the Space Race.
What is NASA?
Winston Churchill warned that failing to act against Soviet expansion would repeat this earlier mistake.
What is appeasement of Hitler?
McCarthy’s actions sparked debates over this conflict between protecting the nation and individual rights.
What is personal freedom vs national security?
According to Truman, U.S. involvement in global conflicts became necessary to protect this.
What is national security?
The Soviet Union blocked Eastern European countries from receiving this U.S. aid program.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The culture of the 1950s emphasized this behavior, especially during the Red Scare.
What is conformity?
President Kennedy set a goal to land a man in this location.
What is the Moon?