Its a baby boom!
A huge increase in the number of births from 1946 to 1964 in the United States
the baby boom
Social, political, and economic ideology held by the Soviet Union that called for the elimination of social classes and private property
communism
The name for the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that gave rise to an arms race, a space race, and a race for influence among the world’s nations
The Cold War
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
What was McCarthyism?
public fear concerning the spread of communism.
GI Bill of Rights offered returning veterans this...
loans, college education, job training
policy of not attacking communism where it is established but refusing the spread of
Containment
This incident in which the Russians shot down a high altitude US spy plane over the Soviet Union
The U-2 Incident
What was the Berlin Blockade?
The blockade that the Soviet Union enforced around the German city of Berlin after World War II
Name of the Nuclear Weapon invented that was 1000x more powerful than the atomic bomb used on Japan
The Hydrogen Bomb
Millions of white middle class Americans moved from the cities to the suburbs
White Flight
The name of the alliance system formed by the United States to counter Soviet Aggression
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe.
Marshall Plan
fear of communism
Red Scare
Name of the first satellite that was sent into space by the Soviet Union
Sputnik
The 1950s saw the emergence of these to help fix the housing crisis
(a residential town or community near a city)
suburbs
The name of the alliance of communist countries that was created by the Soviet Union.
Warsaw Pact
The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression
Brinkmanship
Outcome of the Korean War
Korea remains divided, Communist and democratic, at the Demilitarized Zone
Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro
What was the Iron Curtain?
The metaphorical political divide between Eastern Communist Countries and Western Democratic Countries
The policy of the US to support free people who are being influenced by Communists
Truman Doctrine
Failed invasion of Cuba-JFK
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Which President dreamed of putting a man on the moon?
JFK (John F Kennedy)