Column 1
What was the era of confrontation and competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union?
Cold War
What did Roosevelt want to do that would help promote both democracy and capitalism?
Increase world trade
What is the term for Eastern European countries that were Communist?
Satellite Nations
What is the name for the policy the U.S. used during the Cold War to combat Communism?
What is the full title of "DMZ"?
Demilitarized Zone
What was the name of the Wisconsin Senator who claimed he had a list of Communists within the U.S. federal government?
Joseph McCarthy
What is the term for the political and military barrier that separated Soviet-controlled Communist countries of Eastern Europe from Western Europe?
Iron Curtain
What is the document that gave all European nations the right to choose their type of government?
Declaration of Liberated Europe
What was the purpose of the Yalta Conference?
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin planning the postwar world
What was the name of the promise for the United States to fight the spread of Communism worldwide?
Truman Doctrine
Who did the U.S. ally themselves with during the Korean War?
South Korea
What was the name of the project where American and British code-breakers found evidence of Soviet spying in the United States?
Project Venona
What was the purpose of loyalty review programs?
To screen all federal government employees to determine their loyalty to the U.S. government
What did the GI Bill do?
Provided education and financial support for veterans and their children
What was the name of Truman's set of domestic legislative proposals?
Fair Deal
Name 1 cause of the baby boom.
WWII and Korean War were over
GI Bill
Popular culture encouraged families
Who created the vaccine that helped almost completely eliminate polio?
Jonas Salk
What was the name of the movie format where movies were played on large, panoramic screens?
Cinemascope
Name 1 reason why suburbs became so popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Allowed people to escape cities
Believed would provide better lives
Incredibly affordable
Which piece of legislation led to a $25 billion work project to construct over 40,000 miles of interstate highways?
Federal Highway Act
What did the transistor do for electronics?
Allow for them to be made smaller
What is the reason why the radio industry survived after television became so popular?
Radios being installed in cars
What is the poverty line?
Name 1 group that experienced poverty in the 1950s.
Single mothers
Elderly
Minorities
Rural Americans
Inner city citizens
What subjects did students begin studying more during the 1950s?
Math and science