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This war started when North Korea invaded South Korea

What is the Korean War?

100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100

Who were the two superpowers during the Cold War?

Who is the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR)

100

Define the Red Scare

What is a hysteria over the threat of Communists (something like this)

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The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
200

He was the President of the United States at the Yalta Conference (1st conference)

Who is FDR

200

Define containment

What is stopping the spread of Communism

200

Who beat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 election?

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike!)

200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300

He was the President of the United States during the Potsdam Conference (2nd conference)

Harry Truman

300

This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947 (Hint: made by President Truman).

What is the Truman Doctrine?

300

What did the Federal Highway Act do? What major thing did it lead to?

What is funded construction of more than 40,000 miles of highways, and led to the migration to the suburbs!!!
300

Describe what the baby boom was?

What is a period marked by a significant increase in birth rates

300
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
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What big thing did the Potsdam Conference do?

What is split Germany (and Berlin) into 4 pieces

400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400

What did the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) do?

What is provided schools funding for math and science

400

What factors led to the baby boom? (List at least 2)

What is no war, higher incomes (not in the Great Depression), less baby deaths from better healthcare

400

Describe what the iron curtain was?

What is it was a metaphor for the split/division between Western Democracy and Eastern Communism

500

Define the Cold War...

What is the era of economic, social, political, and military rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (something like this... was not an actual war!!!)

500

Describe the process of territorial gain during the Korean War. Also, how did the war end? Also, why did we get involved in the Korean War? Answer all 3!

Back and forth, stalemate, containment!

500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500

Describe the link between the baby boom and housing

What is mo babies, mo housing

500

Fully describe the event of the Berlin Airlift... (Why did we need to do the airlift, what was the airlift, what did the airlift show the world?)

What is Berlin Blockade, Airlift was when we flew 4,500 tons of food and supplies a day to the West Berlin citizens, and showed the world that we could successfully fight back against Communism