Potpourri
Post World War II, these two countries emerged as the dominant world powers.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
When the government controls the economy and gives people very little freedom.
What is communism?
1944 saw the creation of the United Nations and this other group.
What is The Human RIghts Commission?
American fear of communism let to this.
What is the Red Scare?
John Green says that it's known as the Cold War because...
What is because it never "heated up" during the time period?
The differences in ideas between the superpowers at the time led to what we know as this.
What is the Cold War?
Kind of government where there's private ownership of property, business, and industry. Also, the government has little involvement in the economy.
What is capitalism?
The location where Harry Truman and Josef Stalin met.
What is Potsdam?
Clearing and screening of federal employees.
What is The Loyalty Review Program?
The years that the Cold War lasted.
What is from 1945 until 1990?
The group of countries that was created to keep the peace between countries after WWII.
What is the United Nations?
A government that is chosen by the people via free elections, with unlimited political parties.
What is democracy?
The United States thought that this would cause the Soviet system to fall apart.
What is containment?
The group that focused a "witch-hunt" on the Hollywood film industry was known as.
What is The House Un-American Activities?
The author who wrote the following: “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it."
Who is William Faulkner?
This country was the European country that was divided in two: a Communist zone & a democratic zone.
What is Germany?
The treaty where the United States and other nations protected one another.
What is NATO, or North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Assistance to European countries was provided for by this.
These people were prosecuted and convicted of spying.
Who were Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs?
What made the United States a superpower during the Cold War.
What is atomic weapons?
Countries that were Soviet allies, but also were under pressure from the Soviet Union.
What are Satellite Countries?
NATOs counterpart, also known as the Treaty of Friendship.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This promised to fight against the spread of communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
Nuclear fears had Soviets and Americans doing this.
What is testing the hydrogen bomb and building fallout shelters?
The number of Russian casualties during WWII.
What is 20 million people?