Cold War
This country wanted to spread communism to everyone
What is the Soviet Union?
This involved the fear that there were communists at home in America in labor unions, and the government
What was the Second Red Scare?
This act allowed people to quickly travel from their house in the suburbs to their jobs in the city
What was the Interstate Highway System?
This was the fear of communism
What is McCarthyism?
The Soviet Union took over this territory even though it was split between the 4 allied powers
What is Berlin?
This made it harder for labor unions to go on strike
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
Another name for the GI bill
What is the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act?
These started appealing to people’s emotional needs and were largely targeted to the middle class
What are Advertisings?
This person coined the term “Iron Curtain“
Who is Churchill?
This program searched for communists in society
What is HUAC?
This added 50 million people to the population
What was the Baby boom?
People were able to buy things they didn‘t have the money for but could pay off later with these
What are Credit Cards?
This was put in place to give support to countries threatened by communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This person claimed to have the names of 205 known communists that were in the State Department
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
These were mass produced homes of the same style
What were Levittowns?
This popular music genre appealed to the younger generation
What is Rock ‘N’ Roll?
This was an agreement not to use nuclear bombs in fear of destroying the world
What is Mutual Assured Destruction?
These people were accused and executed for stealing and selling the blueprints to make atomic bombs to the Soviet Union
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
A mass migration of mostly veterans moved here
What is the Sun Belt?
These were poets who rebelled against conformity in society
Who were Beatniks?