Cold War
The new "barrier" that separated Soviet-controlled countries from Western Europe
What is the iron curtain?
Investigated suspected communists in the entertainment and other industries
Who is the HUAC?
US policy of granting aid to European countries fighting communism
What is the truman doctrine?
The US consisted mostly of these families
What are nuclear families?
The US would help any middle eastern nation threatened by communism
What is the eisenhower doctrine?
American foreign policy of keeping communism from spreading
What is containment?
State Dept employee convicted of spying for the USSR
Congress provides billions of $ to this plan to stabilize war-torn countries in western europe
What is the marshall plan?
Influenced by the Blues of the South, it was usually upbeat and involved more “harsh” sounds
What is rock n' roll?
Tactic that used dangerous methods placing you on the verge of disaster
What is brinkmanship?
An anti-communist military alliance with western europe
What is NATO?
Convicted and executed for passing atomic bomb secrets to the USSR
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
Deal that strengthened new deal policies and added national health insurance
What is the fair deal?
King of rock n' roll
Who is Elvis Presley?
Authorized funds to build an interstate highway system
What is the interstate highway act of 1956?
Leader of the USSR
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
Group of suspected communists who were actos/directers/writers in Hollywood
Won the presidential election of 1948 against Thomas Dewey
Who is Truman?
The invention of this revolutionized entertainment and politics
What is television?
The first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875
What is the civil rights bill of 1957?
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Period in the 1950’s of reckless accusations against suspected communists with little or no evidence
What is McCarthyism?
In his first months in office he issued this decision on Japan, ending World War II
What is the atomic bomb?
The first of several low-cost, suburban housing developments built by Levitt and Sons following WWII
What are levittowns?
His philosophy of differentiating his policies from Democrats to his left and conservatives to his right
What is the "middle way"?