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Shifting economy post WWII
Origins of the Cold War
Major Cold War Conflicts
Cold War odds and ends
Changing society in Cold between WWII and present
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Mandy people bought goods using this after the war.
What is credit?
100
This is the name for a state of tension between the U.S. and the USSR, which divided the world into two halves.
What is the Cold War?
100
These are the three major conflicts of the Cold War Era?
What are Korean Conflict, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam War?
100
Soviet missiles were removed in Cuba after President Kennedy ordered this.
What is a blockade?
100
This is the name for the era in the late 1940's through the 1960's in which people had a lot of kids!
What is the "Baby Boom!"
200
This is what happened to most women DIRECTLY after the war.
What is they went back to full-time family responsibilities as men returned to their jobs in the workforce.
200
The Soviet Union dominated this side of Europe.
What is Eastern Europe?
200
While Americans in the past were very united over war efforts (think of World War II!), this war divided Americans into two camps: one for and one against the war.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This event marked the end of communism in Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
200
This wife of a former President was an advocate for expanding human rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
This is what EVENTUALLY happened with women in the workforce after World War II (not right after, but eventually).
What is they entered the workforce in higher numbers?
300
The US had a capitalist economy and a democratic government, while the Soviet Union had a dictatorial government and this type of economy.
What is communist?
300
This is the name of the theory the U.S. had that stated that communism would keep spreading from one country to another if we did not stop it.
What is the Domino Theory?
300
When communism fell, this was broken up into separate countries.
What is the USSR or Soviet Union?
300
This President desegregated the troops.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
400
In the era after World War II, workers gained new benefits and received higher salaries. This is in part because these became stronger.
What are labor unions?
400
This was name of the American policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
400
The Soviets removed the missiles in Cuba when this happened.
What is President Kennedy ordered a blockade?
400
The Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire agreement while the Korean war ended in this.
What is a stalemate?
400
President Eisenhower created this system which helped Americans to go on vacation more easily!
What is the Interstate Highway System?
500
With rationing over, production shifted from war materials to these kinds of goods.
What are consumer?
500
These were the two organizations or agreements (one communist; one democratic) that divided the war. Make sure and state which goes with which.
What is Warsaw Pact (communist) and NATO (democratic)?
500
The North Koreans received aid from this country, also communists.
What is China?
500
This is the proper order of the following conflicts: Vietnam War, Korean Conflict, fall of the Berlin Wall, World War II, World War I, Cuban Missile Crisis, Great Depression
What is World War I, Great Depression, World War II, Korean Conflict, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, fall of the Berlin Wall?
500
The G.I. Bill of Rights did several things. Name three.
What are housing benefits/educational benefits/employee benefits?