Post
WW2
WW2
Bill gave veterans opportunities after returning from war: could get low interest rate loans, tuition assistance, and assisted in adjusting to regular life
GI Bill or Serviceman's readjustment Act of 1944
name of the two ideologies facing off for control during cold war
democracy and communism
created polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
Joseph McCarthy claimed the US governemnt had been infiltrated by communist spies causing wide spread fear and paronoia about the Government. what was the term for this ?
McCarthyism
First satellite to orbit Earth, was launched by USSR, and spurred the US to increase funding in science and STEM
Sputnik I
rock and roll was a way to ______________ express?
self
what plan gave money to european countries recovering from ww2
Marshall plan
executive order 9981 did what
desegregated the military
HUAC also known as the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated what during the cold war?
investigated people thought to be communist (Hollywood)
cold war spurred tech advancements, increased education, eventually founded _______________ for space research
NASA
as housing demands grew in the 1950s what effects came?
suburbs grew
environments destroyed
highways
other than ideologies, what else did countries compete on during the cold war?
The Korean war ended in a stalemat and divided the country at what parallel?
38th
a failed invasion to take down a communist dictator in cuba?
bay of pigs
1st man in space (NAME AND COUNTRY)
Yuri - USSR
NATO - a group of countries that supported democracy also known as?
North Atlantic Treaty Orgnaization
policy to stop the spread of is called?
containment
korean war who helped north korea? and who helped south korea?
china north
US and allies of UN south
diplomatic negotiations that stopped the nuclear missiles attacks between US and an island neighbor - 90 miles from coast of Florida
Cuban Missile Crisis
What president set the goal of sending a man to the moon?
JFK
made in response to NATO, of like minded communist countries
Warsaw pact
berlin was split in half, the soviet section was blockaded off the us responded by doing what?
berlin airlift/ dropped supplies
generation born at the end of ww2 and the families saw the rise of suburbs
baby boomers
boomers
Another weapon created after nukes was called a hydrogen bomb. How much stronger was it estimated to be?
Double points - also answer what year did us have the hydrogen and what year did USSR have it?
450x
US 1952 and USSR 1953
Impacts of technology originally used by Nasa and military during cold war now impacts civilian life in what way
positive
economic growth
new jobs