The Beginning of the Cold War 15.1
Why was the Cold War considered cold?
No actual fighting
What divided North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
the H bomb (hydrogen)
What is the term for making unsupported accusations
McCarthyism
What was designed to help ease Veteran's return to civilian life
GI Bill
The majority of new homes were built in the...
suburbs
What group criticized the conformity of the 1950s?
Beatniks
Truman Doctrine
Which economic system promotes competition between private businesses?
Capitalism
A foreign policy that stated the US would use force to help any nation threatened by communism
Eisenhower Doctrine
Who claimed that they were being prosecuted for being Jewish?
Rosenbergs (Ethel and Julius)
What major change happened in schools after WWII?
More attending high school/college
buying as much as you can on credit is known as
consumerism
What was rock-n-roll originally called?
Race music
Foreign policy that offered aid to Western Europe after WWII
Marshall Plan
Which economic system supports a free market system?
capitalism
What was the name of the satellite that the Soviet Union launched into space?
Sputnik
What organization primarily investigated the film industry
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Sunbelt
What forever changed the landscape of America? Eisenhower
Highway system
Who made rock-n-roll popular?
Elvis Presley
military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite states
Warsaw Pact
Communist leader of China
Mao Zedong
This person became the new leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death
Nikita Khrushchev
What made it illegal to violently overthrow the US government
Smith Act
Which president served from 1953-1961?
Dwight D Eisenhower
What did the television promote?
Ideal family
What did individuals lack, according to the Beatniks?
Individualism
Countries falling within the influence of the Soviet Union
Satellite States
What does SEATO stand for?
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Eisenhower did not support France, Britain, and Israel in their actions with what crisis?
Suez Crisis
What does HUAC stand for?
House Un-American Activities Committee
What did Truman try to form, that ended up hurting his reputation?
Special committee to investigate civil rights and race relations
A typical family in the 50s was known as what?
Nuclear Family
Who was overlooked throughout the prosperity of the 1950s?
Poor whites, farmers, minorities (Mexicans-Americans, African Americans, Native Americans)
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What does the D stand for in DUCKS
Domino Theory
This program kept nuclear war from breaking out between the Soviets and the United States
Mutually Assured Destruction
When did the Red Scare die? (you need the event and the year)
McCarthy's downfall;1954
Term for the swift rise in birth rates
baby boom
What put billions of money towards generating more scientists after the Soviets launched the first satellite?
National Defense Education Act
Who was the pioneer of rock-n-roll?
Chuck Berry