The Cold War Begins
The rejection of religion and private property caused the United States to dislike this style of Government.
What is Communism?
The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to a temporary division of Korea at this parallel.
What is the 38th parallel?
This was the legal separation of Americans in public facilities and schools based on race.
What is segregation?
The Soviet Invasion of this country ended the period known as Détente.
What is Afghanistan?
A share of ownership in a corporation.
What is a stock?
The Truman Doctrine established a policy that caused America to use force to stop the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
Truman disagreed with this US Military general over invading China.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
The court ordered public schools to be desegregated after ruling in this court case.
What is Brown vs the Board of Education?
Reagan agreed to meet with this Soviet leader because of his open policy toward the Russian people.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This process was developed in the 1850’s to produce steel by removing impurities from raw iron ore at a lower cost.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This cut off Soviet run eastern Europe from the democratic nations of the West
What is the Iron Curtain?
This bill caused the government spent billions of dollars to help veterans setup farms and businesses.
What is the GI Bill?
This event embarrassed the american government and caused tension between the United States and JFK.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This Moscow politician who had rejected the Communist Party led thousands of Russians in protest
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
This reformer opened the Hull House, a settlement house in the Chicago area.
Who is Jane Addams?
This US Secretary of State saw millions of homeless and starving refugees and didn’t want communism to spread.
Who is George Marshall?
Improvements in health care and nutrition contributed to the phenomenon.
What is the baby boom?
This movement was caused by the arrest of Rosa Parks for sitting in the front of a bus and led by Martin Luther King.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Investment in these companies led to a stock market bubble?
What are "dot-coms"?
An organization of trade unions that represented skilled workers
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This Communist leader led a revolution in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
An increase in this allowed the United States to manufacture and consume, or use, more goods than any other country.
What is productivity?
Americans avoided the Vietnam Draft by making this life choice that wasn't always available to poor Americans.
What is attending college?
These agreements were controversial because they led some American businesses to move operations to other countries, where worker pay was lower and environmental regulations were weaker.
What were free-trade agreements with foreign countries?
This is a system of connected railroad lines.
What is a network?