Cold War presidency
The TWO presidents we discussed during this Cold War Unit
Who are Truman and Eisenhower?
The process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are influenced by other people.
What is Conformity?
Wave of mass hysteria caused by the threat of communist infiltrating the United States.
Second Red Scare
An activity or activities of the United States Government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is not obvious the US government played a role.
What is Covert Action?
The name of the SYMBOLIC line splitting Europe into East and West
What is the Iron Curtain
The policy of bringing a situation to the edge of war, forcing your opponent to back down.
What is Brinkmanship
The name given to "traditional" families with a mom, dad, and a couple children
What is the Nuclear Family?
The practice of spying or using spies to obtain political and military information.
What is Espionage?
Theory that if one country in a region fell to Communism, then the rest of the neighboring countries would soon also fall to Communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
The policy of keeping Communism only in the places it already existed and stopping Soviet Aggression is called.
What is Containment?
The names of the two major Conferences following the end of the Cold War?
What are the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences?
Act that created Interstates throughout America.
Allows people to move supplies and people more quickly.
What is the Federal Highway Act of 1956?
In 1953, the only two Americans to ever be tried, convicted, and executed of espionage.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Name of the doctrine that promised to give economic and military support to countries in the Middle East
to help them resist Communism
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
The name of the first Satellite Russians sent into space.
What is Sputnik?
Doctrine that sent money to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of Communism.
Usually considered the start of the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This bill gave Veterans Economic benefits like free rides to school
What is the G.I. Bill?
Wisconsin Senator who used intimidation and smear campaigns to investigate those who disagreed with him.
Attempted to ruin careers and reputations by accusing them of Communist affiliation.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The United Fruit Company owned 60% of land in this country during the 1950s/60s.
The CIA became involved in a coup in this country
What is Guatemala?
Alliance in the Eastern part of Europe controlled by the Soviet Union in response to the creation of NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The Act that created the CIA.
What is the National Security Act?
The name given to the practice of banks not giving loans to families of color to buy houses in certain neighborhoods, confining them to only certain parts of cities
What is Red Lining?
The Committee in the House of Representatives who investigated possible threats to America.
Also responsible for blacklisting several members of Hollywood during the Cold War.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee.
(HUAC)
Crisis that occurred after Egypt tried to Nationalize control over the major Egyptian canal.
England, France, and Israel took control of the canal until the US forced them to leave.
What is the Suez canal crisis?
America and the Soviet Union had opposite goals in the Cold War.
The goal of America was to spread ____________
The goal of the Soviets was to spread ___________
What is Democracy?
What is Communism?