The World After World War II
After World War II, these two nations emerged as rival superpowers.
What are the United States and Soviet Union?
Managing relations and negotiations between governments.
What is diplomacy?
What is whistle-stop?
Truman used a ______-stop tour to campaign directly to voters.
Defeat of the Axis left the United States and Soviet Union as these.
What are rival superpowers?
This term means bringing people or a country under control through force or domination.
What is subjugation?
Their long political, economic, and military rivalry became known as this.
What is the Cold War?
An effort to stop people, goods, or supplies from entering or leaving a place.
What is a blockade?
What is blacklist?
Fear of communism contributed to political investigations and a ______.
Their conflicting systems produced competition over Europe and other regions, creating this rivalry.
What is the Cold War?
Korea was divided into these two countries.
What are North Korea and South Korea?
Eastern European countries often became these heavily Soviet-controlled states.
What are satellite states?
Existing in practice even if not formally established by law.
What is de facto?
What are G.I.s?
Returning military veterans were commonly called ______s.
Cold War competition divided Korea between governments backed by these.
What are opposing Cold War powers?
This informal military term was especially common for U.S. soldiers of the WWII era.
What is G.I.?
The Korean War reinforced the lasting division of this peninsula.
What is Korea?
A country formally independent but heavily controlled by a stronger power.
What is a satellite?
American agriculture became more commercial and mechanized through ______.
What is agribusiness?
The Korean War reinforced this lasting condition on the peninsula.
What is a de facto division?
Global Cold War rivalry included the threat of these weapons.
What are nuclear arms?
Postwar America was transformed by returning veterans, suburban growth, consumer demand, and this dramatic increase in births.
What is the baby boom?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A U.S. policy supporting countries resisting communist pressure or takeover.
Communist governments sometimes organized local life or agriculture through a ______.
What is a commune?
Returning veterans and rising families helped fuel he baby boom and this growth change.
What is the suburban growth?
This large-scale commercial farming system includes production, processing, and sale of agricultural goods.
What is agribusiness?