The Cold War in Europe
the U.S.-Soviet conflict in which the two powers avoided fighting each other directly but worked to block each other’s goals around the world
The Cold War
the first opportunity to test the relative strength and influence of each side of the Cold War
the Korean War
the closest the world came to nuclear war
the Cuban Missile Crisis
the 1944 law designed to ease the transition from military to civilian life by providing veterans with financial aid for education and housing and to begin small businesses
the GI Bill of Rights
the thing that separated Nixon and Kennedy in the presidential campaign of 1960
the use of electronic media like TV as a significant factor
the restriction of Communism to its current borders
containment
Sputnik
the U.S. pledge to provide economic and military aid to pro-Western governments in the Middle East
the Eisenhower Doctrine
the development of the interstate highway system
the use of intimidation and often unfounded accusations in the name of fighting Communism
McCarthyism
the declaration that the United States would help all free people resisting “subjugation by armed minorities or outsides pressures”
The Truman Doctrine
the Korean War general who made a daring landing behind enemy lines at Inchon with 18,000 marines and tanks
General Douglas MacArthur
a 1956 international incident in Egypt involving the attempted nationalization of the Suez Canal by the Arab nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser
the Suez Crisis
As war veterans returned to a prosperous economy, the postwar years saw a tremendous growth in childbirth, a phenomenon known as what?
the baby boom
the only Americans convicted of espionage during the Cold War for providing information on the atomic bomb to the Soviets
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The plan that proposed resisting the spread of Communism by investing billions of dollars to help rebuild Europe
The Marshall Plan
the vast, interwoven military establishment and arms industry that was sparked by the perception of the U.S. being behind in the technology race
the military-industrial complex
the CIA plan approved by Kennedy to sponsor an invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro Cubans that was an abject failure and made America look weak
the Bay of Pigs Invasion
the most significant population shift of the Postwar Era
the migration of white Americans from cities to the suburbs
the government organization that had been operating since before World War II to root out Communist sympathizers
the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
the meeting between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in which Germany was divided into occupation zones
the Potsdam Conference
developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa that shook off colonial rule and asserted their autonomy in the years following WWII
emerging nations
the 1947 act which created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Council (NSC)
the National Security Act
the doctor who developed the first effective polio vaccine in the 1950s, eventually effectively eliminating the threat of polio
Jonas Salk
the two issues that U.S. politics centered around in the immediate aftermath of World War II
reaction against the New Deal
the threat of Communism