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Huge increase in birth rate between 1945-1961.
What is the baby boom?
100
Went on a witch hunt looking for communists in the US government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
City in Germany, which was the site of 1949 emergency airlift.
What is Berlin?
100
Formed after WWII, with 51 original member nations, this organization's goals are to maintain peace and settle international disputes.
What is the United Nations?
100
Built around West Berlin in 1961 in order to keep people from fleeing communist rule.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
The first satellite launched into orbit.
What is Sputnik?
200
"The king of rock n' roll."
Who is Elvis Presley?
200
Dividing line between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
200
Formation of all member nations within the UN.
What is the UN General Assembly?
200
Nations of Eastern Europe under Soviet domination.
What are satellite nations?
300
Term that refers to preventing further spread of communism.
What is containment?
300
US president elected in 1952.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
Site of communist revolution in 1949.
What is China?
300
Made up of 15 members within the UN; also has 5 permanent members who can veto any decision.
What is the UN Security Council?
300
Rivalry that existed between the US and the USSR after WWII.
What is the cold war?
400
Principal (or idea) that the US would oppose the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
Communist leader of China after WWII.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
Site of communist revolution in 1959.
What is Cuba?
400
Postwar European and North American defensive alliance.
What is NATO?
400
Provided money for economic assistance to Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Phrase used to describe Soviet policy in Europe from 1945-1989.
What is the iron curtain?
500
Overthrown by Fidel Castro, as a result of the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
500
UN troops land in this port city and begin to push North Korean troops north, close to the Chinese border.
What is Inchon?
500
Defensive alliance of the USSR and the Eastern European satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact/Alliance?
500
Area where no one controls.
What is a demilitarized zone?