1. 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts Vocabulary Roots of the Cold War A time of Prosperity Korean War Period Global Concerns of A Cold War

2. What is an airlift?

3. Sending cargo planes to deliver tons of supplies to people

4. What does it mean to veto?

5. Reject

6. What is the baby boom?

7. An increase in birthrate

8. What is a satellite?

9. A nation that is dominated politically or economically by a more powerful nation

10. What is the iron curtain?

11. Barrier of secrecy and censorship that keeps a country isolate from the rest of the world

12. What was Truman’s Policy?

13. Containment

14. What countries became Satellite nations?

15. Eastern Europeans

16. What countries took control of Germany?

17. US, France, England and the Soviet Union

18. What does NATO stand for?

19. North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio n

20. What type of government did China change to?

21. Communism

22. What was the Taft-Hartley Act?

23. The court could delay a strike if it threatened the public saftey

24. Why did Eisenhower win the 1952 election?

25. He was a war hero from WWII

26. What rock and roll star became popular?

27. ELVIS

28. What new invention became popular?

29. The Television

30. What happened to cities when people moved to the suburbs?

31. The cities began to go downhill because the cities did not gain taxes from these people

32. Where was Korea split?

33. The 38 th Parallel

34. How many people died in the Korean War?

35. 2 Million

36. What was Alger Hiss accused of?

37. Giving top secret papers to the Soviets

38. What did Joseph McCarthy do?

39. He built his career on threatening to expose Communists in the government

40. How did McCarthy affect peoples lives?

41. People lost their jobs and could not get them back, their reputation’s were ruined, even if they were not communist.

42. Who took over when Stalin died?

43. Nikita Khrushchev

44. What country won the “Space Race” and what was the name of the Satellite?

45. The Soviets won and it was called Sputnik

46. What did JFK form to help bring friendship and peace between nations?

47. The Peace Corps

48. What event was a huge embarrassmen t for the Americans?

49. Invasion at the Bay of Pigs

50. Who put their missiles into Cuba?

51. The Soviets