Cold War Conflicts
This 1948 event saw the Soviets block all land access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Post–WWII America experienced this dramatic rise in birth rates.
What is the Baby Boom?
This U.S.-led alliance was created in 1949 to resist Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
The House Un-American Activities Committee mainly investigated suspected ____________.
What are communists?
The 17th Amendment allowed voters to directly elect these officials.
What are senators?
The U.S. responded to the blockade with this major operation.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The Baby Boom led to increased demand for this type of construction.
What is the suburbs?
This Soviet-led alliance was formed in 1955 in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Senator Joseph McCarthy accused “traitors” in government of being part of this ideology.
What is communism?
Americans opposed joining this post-WWI organization because they feared being drawn into foreign conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
The idea that if one country falls to communism, its neighbors will follow.
What is the domino theory?
Which form of music divided the older and younger generations in the 1950s?
What is rock and roll?
President Truman’s strategy to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
The fear of communism taking over the US Govt was called-
What is the Red Scare?
Progressive reforms like initiative, recall, and referendum made government more ________.
What is democratic?
This island nation was the focus of major Cold War tension for President Kennedy.
What is Cuba?
This competition was between the US and Soviet Union to get into the atmosphere above Earth.
What is the Space Race?
This plan provided $13 billion to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This term describes the hunt for suspected communists in the U.S. during the 1950s.
What is McCarthyism?
A person who is unfriendly toward increased immigration is known as this.
What is a nativist?
Khrushchev’s 1962 letter to President Kennedy referred to this Cold War crisis.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the name of the Soviet satellite that was launched into space in1957?
What is Sputnik?
Which country did the US invade to stop the spread of communism in the 1950s?
What is Korea?
The competition to create the most powerful nuclear weapons bewteen the US and the Soviet Union-
What is the Arms Race?
This group supported the use of Eugenics, or "pseudoscience" during WWII.
Who were the Nazis (Hitler)?