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These are the two primary conferences held near the end of World War II in which the Allied powers decided what to do with European governments and Germany following the conclusion of the war.
What are Yalta and Potsdam?
This was the name of the massive aid program offered by the United States to any country that agreed to use a free market economy and purchase certain American goods.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Provide the four countries in which the primary proxy war conflicts of the Cold War were fought.
What are Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, and China?
This is the term used to describe several famous actors and writers who were blacklisted due to their speaking out against the constitutional violations of the Second Red Scare.
Who are the Hollywood 10?
This is the term coined by Pres. Eisenhower to represent the continued American federal deficit spending on military production and foreign sales of weapons.
What is the Military Industrial Complex?
What did the Allies decide to do with European governments following World War II?
What is self-determine?
This is the name for the supply of American, British, and French occupants of Berlin when Stalin closed East Germany off to the West in 1947.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This was the name of the security department meant to monitor communist activities in the United States.
What is the House un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This was the president who created the containment policy for communism following WWII.
Who is Harry Truman?
Provide two major cultural or technological innovations of the 1950s.
What are the television and movies?
This is the policy in which the US and the USSR both held nuclear weapons and therefore did not fight directly from 1947 to 1991.
What is mutually assured destruction?
These are the first to European countries in which the United States provided aid to prevent the spread of communism in 1947.
What is Turkey and Greece?
Provide two key members of the department detailed above in #19.
Who are Richard Nixon and Martin Dies?
This was a piece of legislation that provided returning soldiers with assistance for housing, vocational training, and college following World War II.
What is the GI Bill?
This is the name of the famous TV evangelist in the 1950s and 60s who helped greatly increase church attendance in the United States.
Who is Billy Graham?
These are the two espionage and intelligence agencies used by the US and USSR during the Cold War.
What are the CIA and KGB?
This is the name for the defensive military alliance by Western democracies formed in 1949.
What is NATO?
This was a senator who utilized fear of communism to accuse several members of conspiring against the United States as communists with little or no evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
These are areas of common tract homes often formed just outside of dense urban areas.
What are suburbs?
This philosophical movement perplexed by the destruction of WWII and the Cold War posed several critiques of society, including, among others, group power dynamics.
What is postmodernism?
This is the policy in which the US determined it must stop communism by preventing it from spreading.
This is the name for the Eastern bloc defensive military alliance among communist nations in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Which party generally had a more hardline approach to communism and anarchism following World War II?
Who are Republican Party?
This is the region in the Southeast and Southwest in which many families moved to follow World War II.
What is the Sun Belt Region?
This was a movement against the status quo in the 1960s and 70s in which mostly young people rejected and attempted to dismantle the cultural and systematic oppression present in the United States.
What is the counterculture?