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Democratic countries formed this organization to support each other economically.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)? $100
Following this concept meant keeping Soviet influence within existing borders.
What is containment ? $200
Under this policy, the US supported any nations threatened by communism using $ or any other means possible.
What is the Truman Doctrine? $300
The crisis in Berlin evolved when this occurred.
What is when the countries controlling the zones in western Germany decided to unite them? $400
A nation with the ability to influence economic and political events around the world is called this.
What is a “superpower” ? $???
In ,548,000 of these contributed to the youth culture.
What is a “babyboomer” ? $100
These homes were mass produced utilizing building strategies used in WWII.
What are Levittown homes? $200
The suburbs grew for these two reasons.
What are the need for space and A-bomb fears of city life ? $300
The growth of automobiles affected society in these three ways.
What are drive-ins and diners as well as the Interstate Highway Act? $400
For returning soldiers this provided Federal funds for education, businesses and new homes.
$500 What is the GI Bill?
The Korean War ended right where it began at this location.
$100 What is the 38 th parallel?
This is the art of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit of safety to get a more favorable outcome.
$200 What is brinksmanship?
This post Bay of Pigs plan included using the CIA to disrupt Cuba’s economy and assassinate Castro.
$300 What is Operation Mongoose?
This general questioned Truman’s plans in Korea and was fired as a result.
$400 Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This South Korean leader was an US ally during the Korean War.
$??? Who is Syngman Rhee?
This was the Soviet leader during the 1950s and Cuban Missile Crisis.
$100 Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This man was found guilty of giving the USSR A-bomb secrets; he received 14 years.
$200 Who is Klaus Fuchs?
This person led a successful communist revolution in China in 1949.
$300 Who is Mao Zedong?
This man created a plan to rebuild Europe after WWII using $17 billion in aid.
$400 Who is George Marshall?
This U-2 pilot claimed to be a weather man when he crashed in the USSR.
$500 Who was Gary Powers?
The successful launch of this satellite put fear in the hearts of Americans.
$100 What is Sputnik?
This man started “witch hunts” in America, ruining the lives of many with false accusations.
$200 Who is Joe McCarthy?
The conference at Yalta contributed to the Cold War in this manner.
$300 What is by allowing Stalin to keep all territory his troops had recovered during the war.
The 1960 presidential election is historic for this reason.
$400 What is the influence of the TV debates and voter fraud in Texas and Illinois?
The A-bomb affected average American life in the 1950s this way.
$500 What is bomb shelters, suburbs, and/or “duck and cover” ?
Cuba
These three results were outcomes of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What are: 1.a “hotline” is set up between the US and USSR. 2. Khrushchev loses power in USSR 3. Missiles out of Cuba-US takes away missiles in Turkey 4. Castro separates himself from US/USSR 4. the “ wet foot dry foot ” policy and the embargo of Cuba still exist today