Roots of the Cold War
Symbolic division between East & West in Europe during the Cold War
What is the iron curtain?
An increase in prices.
What is inflation?
A region where military forces are not allowed.
What is a demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
An amount left over.
What is a surplus?
A war in which two enemies do not fight in combat but instead compete and conflict in other ways.
What is a cold war?
The policy of holding back or stopping Communism.
What is containment?
A program aimed at solving some of the nation's economic problems after World War II.
What is the Fair Deal?
This country's troops becoming involved in the Korean War complicated things for United States and United Nations.
What is China?
Competition between countries for stronger military power.
What is an arms race?
The practice of spying or using spies.
What is espionage?
The delivery of supplies by aircraft.
What is an airlift?
The practice of businesses hiring only union members.
What is a closed shop?
Urban poverty became an issue in the 1950's as more people moved here.
What are the suburbs?
This was the first human to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
A measure of necessities and comforts enjoyed by an individual group.
What is standard of living?
Attempts to overthrow or undermine a government by working secretly within that government.
What is subversion?
The ending of the policy of racial segregation.
What is segregation?
Who is the best teacher in the whole world?
Mr Hargis
Having wealth
What is affluence?
Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin met in February in 1945 to discuss issues of the post-World War II world in this place.
What is Yalta?
The crime of lying under oath.
What is perjury?
This was the legislation that allowed the government to temporarily stop and strike that endangered public health or safety.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
A meeting of heads of government.
What is a summit?
The focus on collecting money and possessions.
What is materialism?
The pledge that the U.S. would help countries resist communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?