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100

A conference at which the Big Three made important decisions about the future of European government

What was the Yalta Confrence?

100

Communist leader of China

Who was Mao Zedong?

100

A significant increase in the number of babies born

What was the baby boom?

100

The policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism 

What was the Truman Doctrine?

200

A November 1945 tribunal that put high-ranking Nazis on trial

What were the Nuremberg trials?

200

The line that divides North and South Korea?

What was the 38th parallel?

200

Southern and western states that offered a warm climate year round and low tax rates

What is the Sun Belt?

200

Under this plan, Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1946 and 1952

What was the Marshall Plan?

300
An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts

What is the United Nations?

300

Wisconsin senator who contributed to fears in the early 1950s by claiming Communists were working inside the State Department

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

300

A plan to improve life in the cities

What is an urban renewal program?

300

Members of this treaty promised to protect each other if attacked

What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

400

Powerful countries who influenced events in their regions of the world

What are superpowers?

400

a weapon far more powerful than the atomic bombs used in World War II

What are hydrogen bombs?

400

Young people known as beatniks who criticized society with unusual writing styles and rebellious behavior.

Who were beats?

400

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act

Offered veterans money for school as well as loans for homes, farms, and businesses

What was the GI Bill of Rights?

500

Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world

What is containment?

500

When both the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to build more and more weapons

What was the arms race?

500

The Soviet satellite that was the world's first artificial satellite.

What was Sputnik?

500

Truman's domestic program that included a higher minimum wage, the creation of a national health insurance plan for all Americans, an expanded Social Security services for the elderly

What was the Fair Deal?