2nd Red Scare
Measures to find suspected Communists in the U.S. during the 2nd red scare could best be described as THIS (adjective).
What is AGGRESSIVE/RADICAL/OVER-THE-TOP?
THIS gave World War II veterans benefits like unemployment pay, loans to buy a home or start a business, and money for education.
What was the G.I. BILL/Bill of rights?
Leaders discussed what to do with Germany at the Yalta Conference in Feb. 1945. They decided to do THIS.
What is DIVIDE GERMANY AMONG THE 4 ALLIED POWERS?
Korea was divided in two after World War II along THIS general line of latitude.
What is the 38th PARALLEL?
What is TURKEY?
McCarthyism was a term that often referred to THIS.
What is ANTI-COMMUNIST HYSTERIA?
THIS is a term for an area on the outskirts of a city that became settled by mostly middle-class families in the 1950s.
What are SUBURBS?
During the Cold War era, the U.S. and Soviet Union were hesitant to become involved in direct military conflict for THIS reason.
What is threat of GLOBAL NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION?
In 1949, THIS country was taken over by Communist forces led by Mao Zedong. Other groups (Chinese Nationalists) fled to the island of Taiwan.
What is CHINA?
Floridians were worried about the threat of THESE when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba.
What are NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
One similarity between the 1st red scare of the 1920s and the 2nd red scare of the 1950s was THIS.
What is VIOLATE/INTERFERE WITH CITIZENS RIGHTS GUARANTEED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION?
THIS Act was passed in 1956. It created the Interstate Highway System.
What was the FEDERAL HIGHWAY ACT?
The Marshall Plan would discourage the spread of Communism in Europe for THIS reason.
What is RESTORING ECONOMIC STABILITY/REBUILDING/STABILIZING?
General MacArthur chased North Koreans to the Yalu River near the border with China. He wanted to use nuclear weapons but Truman ended up doing THIS to MacArthur.
What is FIRE HIM (MACARTHUR WAS FIRED)?
In 1961, the U.S. plotted an invasion of Cuba by landing at THIS LOCATION.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
THESE were established to check the loyalty of federal employees and make sure they were not Communists.
What were LOYALTY REVIEW BOARDS/PROGRAM?
Middle Class families left THESE groups behind when they moved to the suburbs.
Who were the POOR and LESS EDUCATED?
In response to the creation of NATO, the Soviet Union created THIS.
What is the WARSAW PACT?
What is a PROXY WAR?
Soviet and American leaders established THIS and negotiated a partial (nuclear arms) test ban as a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
HUAC (House on Un-American Activities Committee) was set up primarily to do THIS.
What is INVESTIGATE SUSPECTED COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS IN THE U.S.?
Prosperity, mass production, and mass consumption (often buying the same items), together with the rise of suburbs led to THIS.
The major big-picture purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to do THIS?
What is a PLEDGE TO RESIST COMMUNISM?
The Korean War began when THIS GROUP attacked South Koreans in June 1950.
Who were COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA?
THIS Cuban leader was overthrown by the Cuban communist dictator, Fidel Castro in 1959.
Who was BATISTA?