__________ was formed in 1949 when Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland signed a treaty with the United States and Canada.
NATO
100
The _________________ stated that the United States would provide money (financial aid) to countries threatened by Communist expansion.
Truman Doctrine
100
A ________ _________ is one that is preoccupied with buying goods rather than producing them.
Consumer Society
100
Former U.S. Army chief of staff, __________________ won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the European Recovery Program.
George C. Marshall
100
DAILY DOUBLE!! A ______________ is one in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services and a minimal standard of living.
welfare state
200
The _______________ was formed in 1955 when the Soviet Union joined with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania in a formal military alliance.
Warsaw Pact
200
The ____________________ was designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe. The plan included $13 billion in aid for Europe's economic recovery.
Marshall Plan
200
DAILY DOUBLE!! A passion of President Johnson, the _______________ Movement promoted equal rights for African Americans.
Civil Rights
200
In 1959, _______________, a left wing revolutionary overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and set up a Soviet-backed totalitatrian regime in Cuba.
Fidel Castro
200
The ________________ states that if one country fell to Communism, then all of the surrounding countries would fall to Communism as well.
Domino Theory
300
To curb Soviet aggression in the East, the United States, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand formed _______________.
SEATO
300
_________________ was the policy of eliminating the more ruthless policies of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union.
de-Stalinization
300
In the United States, the fear of Communist infiltration and subversion became known as the _________________.
Red Scare
300
In 1955 after the death of Joseph Stalin, ___________________ emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union.
Nikita Khrushchev
300
_______________ is the policy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and prevent further aggressive communist moves.
Containment
400
______________ was formed to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding to the south and included Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the United States.
CENTO
400
By 1950, in _______________ industrial production had suppassed pre-war levels by 40%. This included new power plants, canals, giant factories, mines, etc...
Russia
400
A _________ is a group of nations with a common purpose. By the 1960s, the EEC was the world's largest exporter and purchaser of raw materials.
bloc
400
U.S. President, __________________ squared off against Fidel Castro (and Nikita Khrushchev) during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy
400
The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were involved in an ______________ when both countries built up their armies and weapons.
arms race
500
DAILY TRIPLE!!! What do NATO, SEATO, and CENTO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Central Treaty Organization
500
In 1957, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Italy signed the Rome Treaty, which created the _________ _________ ________, a free-trade area otherwise known as the Common Market.
European Economic Community
500
______________ represent the actual purchasing power of income.
Real wages
500
_________________ as a French intellectual and feminist who was very important to the emergence of the women's liberation movement.
Simone de Beauvoir
500
________________ is the theory that if both sides build up huge arsenals of nuclear weapons then war can be prevented.