Cold War Origins
This term describes the political and ideological division between democratic West and communist East Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
U.S. policy aimed at preventing communism from spreading.
What is containment?
This congressional committee investigated alleged disloyalty and targeted Hollywood.
What is HUAC? (House Un-American Activities Committee)
The Soviet blockade of this city led to a massive U.S. airlift of supplies.
What is Berlin (West Berlin)?
This act provided returning veterans with low-interest loans, mortgages, and college money.
What is the G.I. Bill?
The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences divided this country into four zones after WWII.
What is Germany?
This military alliance was formed in 1949 to protect Western nations from Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
These ten Hollywood figures refused to testify and were blacklisted.
Who were the Hollywood 10?
This wall built in 1961 was meant to stop East Germans from fleeing.
What is the Berlin Wall?
President Eisenhower created this highway system in 1956 partly for Cold War defense and evacuation.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
The Cold War was considered “cold” because these two superpowers never did this directly.
What is fight each other in direct military conflict?
This 1948 plan gave $12 billion to rebuild Europe and discourage communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This senator claimed to have a list of communists in government but never proved it.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
What is the Space Race?
This housing development built by William Levitt became the model for suburban growth.
What is Levittown?
This ideological difference symbolized global competition between the U.S. and USSR.
What is capitalism vs. communism?
This 1947 policy promised aid to countries resisting communism, starting with Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This program investigated 3 million federal employees for communist ties.
What is the Loyalty Review Board / Loyalty Review Program?
The main purpose of this organization was the promote world peace through international agreements.
What is the United Nations?
This social pattern described middle-class families moving from cities to suburbs.
What is suburbanization (or white flight)?
This World War 2 conference created the structure of the United Nations
What is the Dumbarton Oaks Conference?
The Soviet response to NATO that solidified control over Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This couple was executed in 1953 for allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the USSR.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Line that divided North and South Korea, remain unchanged after the Korean War.
What is the 38th Parallel?
Also known as the Equal Opportunity in Education Act, outlawed discrimination based on gender in schools and universities
What is Title IX?