People
Decade
Important Organizations
Purposes
Misc.
100

Blockaded West Berlin because of the creation of West Germany

Stalin

100

The Decade of the election of Kennedy

1960

100

Sputnik helped launch this organization

NASA

100

Find Communists in government

McCarthysim

100

Speech by Churchill warning the West of the Soviet's expansion.

Iron Curtain

200

Defeated Nixon in the first televised debate

Kennedy

200

The Decade of the Soviets getting the bomb and the fall of China

1949

200

Created to establish goodwill and understanding between the US & the 3rd World

Peace Corps

200

Move nukes and troops around in case of war or invasion

Interstate Highway Act

200

The nickname of Kennedy's administration

Camelot

300

Created the idea of Containment for US foreign policy

Truman

300

The Decade Sputnik was launched

1957

300

Organization created by the Soviet Union to counter NATO

Warsaw Bloc

300

The Purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

Forbade closed shops

300

The nickname of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, which sent soldiers to school.

G.I. Bill

400

President had the slogan of “peace, progress, and prosperity”

Eisenhower

400

The Decade that the Rosenburgs were tried and executed

1950 & 1953

400

Committee that was launched to investigage Communists in the Arts

House Committee on Un-American Activities

400

Effort to overthrow Castro in 1961

Bay of Pigs

400

The nickname of the European Recovery Program. 

Marshal Plan

500

Person who put the Pacificism clause in the Japanese Constitution

Douglas MacArthur

500

The Decade that created NATO

1949

500

Organization of countries that rejected both sides in the Cold War

Association of Nonaligned Nations

500

The Purpose of the Marshall Plan

Rebuild Europe

500

The nickname of generation after WW2.

Baby Boomers