Distinguish between the wars.
Identify the importance/Conflict.
The relations between the US and the USSR after ww2
Important Words
In the US
100
A war fought during the early 1950s over North Korea's invasion of south Korea
What is the Korean war?
100
What was the reason that the US increased of spending towards science and science teachers?
What is Sputnik?
100
What was the Truman Doctrine?
military support for countries that did not want to be communist.
100
Policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders--stop the SPREAD of communism
What is Containment?
100
music genre that became popular as baby boomers became teenagers?
Rock n Roll
200
What was a term coined by Winston Churchill, the border between the soviet union and Western Europe?
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
Soviet Union's response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
Big 3 decide to divided Germany into 4 occupational zones
What is the Potsdam Conference?
200
"Duck and Cover"
200
Exposed the Rosenbergs as Spies in 1997?
Venona papers
300
Rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union that resulted in NO BLOODSHED
What is the Cold War?
300
Foreign policy that gave financial aid to rebuild Western Europe after WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
led to the building of the Wall that divided communist East Berlin and Democratic West Berlin
What was the U-2 Spy Plane incident?
300
increased the number of college educated individuals and made it easier to buy homes
(primarily veterans)
What is the GI Bill?
300
What were suburban houses/neighborhoods called?
what is a Levittown?
400
What made the U.S. different from the Soviet Union.
US encouraged self-determination and Soviets promoted suppression
400
Who falsely accused many Americans of being communists with little or no evidence?
Who is Joesph McCarthy?
400
What strategy did Eisenhower adopt to "get more bang for his buck" by threatening to use nuclear weapons?
What is massive retaliation?
400
escalating a conflict to the threat of nuclear war to force the other side to back down ?
What is Brinkmanship?
400
65 million births after WW2
what is the Baby Boom
500
What did the US do to help defeat Stalin's Blockade of Berlin?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
what was Oppenheimer expressing concern about?
Nuclear Arms Race
500
goal of NATO and SEATO
to provide security through collective military action against communist aggression
500
McCarthyism was based on deception
500
Similarity in the policies of Truman and Eisenhower
Both pledged economic aid where it was needed to prevent the spread of communism.