People
The brutal dictator that lead the USSR
Joseph Stalin
The Truman doctrine promised what
Containment
The name for the competition of who can build the most nuclear weapons
Arms Race
This system of government where one dictator rules all
Communism
This man took influences from African American music and became the first rock star
Elvis
The leader of Communist China
Mao Zedong
The divide between West and East Berlin
Berlin Wall
The term used for the competition of who could get to space first
The Space Race
This system of government where citizens votes and have a voice
Democracy
The type of music that created a cultural divide and took influences from Jazz and Blues
Rock n’ Roll
The Wisconsin senator that accused thousands of people of being a communist
Joseph McCarthy
The US project that provided supplies to people stuck in East Berlin
Berlin Airlift
The alliance between Democratic countries
NATO
This system of economics where people are free to buy and sell what they want
Capitalism
This time frame increased the population of the United States
Baby boom
A virologist that developed a cure for polio
Jonas Salk
This program helped European countries recover after the tragic events of WWII
Marshall Plan
The alliance between Communist nations
Warsaw Pact
This committee questioned people’s loyalty to the United States and black listed anyone that was suspected of being a communist
House Un-American Committee
Eisenhower signed this act to easily travel across the country
Interstate Highway Act
This military leader a fired by President Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Winston Churchill coined this phrase to describe the divide between European Nations
Iron Curtain
This meeting created four occupied zones in Germany after WWII
Potsdam Conference
These Soviet spies were killed for selling American war secrets to the USSR
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The first suburbs
Levittown