ELL Cold War Review (1945-1990)
Mr. Lickteig
Fort Riley Middle School
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| 26146984 | Truman Doctrine | United States use economic aid to help foreign countries contain communism | 0 | |
| 26146988 | United Nations | organization in 1945 used to resolve conflicts | 1 | |
| 26146989 | Warsaw Pact | A military alliance in eastern Europe formed by The Soviet Union in 1955 as a reaction to NATO | 2 | |
| 26146990 | NATO | Military Alliance formed in 1949 by the United States and 11 other countries to defend each other in case of attack | 3 | |
| 26146991 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | what NATO stands for | 4 | |
| 26146992 | McCarthy | senator from Wisconsin responsible for the 2nd Red Scare | 5 | |
| 26146993 | Second Red Scare | a widespread fear of Communism in the US, 1950s | 6 | |
| 26146995 | Eisenhower | President of the US during most of the 1950s | 7 | |
| 26146996 | Truman | President at the end of WWII | 8 | |
| 26146997 | Stalin | leader of USSR until his death in 1953, originally part of the Big Three | 9 | |
| 26146998 | Kennedy | President of the US from 1961 to 1963; during Cuban Missile Crisis | 10 | |
| 26146999 | Lee Harvey Oswald | man who assassinated JFK | 11 | |
| 26147000 | Dallas | place where JFK was assassinated | 12 | |
| 26147001 | Johnson | man who became president after JFK was assassinated | 13 | |
| 26147002 | Silent Majority | nickname for the average American voters who didn't shout or protest | 14 | |
| 26147003 | OPEC | abbreviation for the group of countries in the Middle East who came together to charge a set price for OIL | 15 | |
| 26147004 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | what OPEC stands for | 16 | |
| 26147005 | Watergate | the scandal which forced NIXON to RESIGN | 17 | |
| 26147006 | Nixon | President at END of Vietnam War | 18 | |
| 26147007 | Ford | President who took over after Nixon's resignation, never was on the ballot | 19 | |
| 26147008 | Carter | President who was a "peanut farmer"; served during Iran Hostage Crisis and the Camp David Accords | 20 | |
| 26147009 | detente | easing of tension between two countries | 21 | |
| 26147010 | embargo | banning trade with another country | 22 | |
| 26147013 | Reagan | President during most of the 1980s | 23 | |
| 26147014 | Reaganomics | nickname for the economic platform used by the President in the 1980s | 24 | |
| 26147021 | China | this country became Communist in 1949 and fueled the fear that Communism would take over the world | 25 | |
| 26147022 | Mao Zedong | leader of Communist Revolution in China | 26 | |
| 26147023 | blacklist | when a company refuses to hire someone because they have been called a Communist | 27 | |
| 26147026 | Rosenbergs | Married nuclear physicists who were convicted of helping the Soviets; were executed | 28 | |
| 26147027 | Communism | government runs / controls everything in the economy, used in USSR | 29 | |
| 26147029 | Capitalism | market economy, supply & demand decide how much an item costs, used in USA | 30 | |
| 26147031 | Forgotten War | nickname for the Korean War because it was between WWII and Vietnam | 31 | |
| 26147033 | China | country that helped North Korea during the Korean War | 32 | |
| 26147034 | Interstate Highway | the first 8 miles of this were built outside Topeka in the 1950s | 33 | |
| 26147035 | Khrushchev | leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death in 1953 | 34 | |
| 26147037 | Fallout Shelter | bunkers designed to protect people should there be a nuclear attack | 35 | |
| 26147038 | Duck and Cover! | strategy taught to school students to protect themselves from nuclear attack; like a TURTLE | 36 | |
| 26147039 | rollback | to make Communist countries Democracies; to revert back to a prior stage | 37 | |
| 26147040 | Massive Retaliation | used by Eisenhower; threatened to use nukes to stop spread of Communism | 38 | |
| 26147041 | covert operations | secret missions undertaken by the CIA during the Cold War | 39 | |
| 26147042 | CIA | organization in charge of covert operations in the USA; created after WWII | 40 | |
| 26147043 | KGB | organization in charge of covert operations in the Soviet Union | 41 | |
| 26147047 | U2 Spyplane | this was shot down over the Soviet Union and increased tensions of the Cold War in the late 1950s | 42 | |
| 26147048 | suburbs | during the 1950s a lot of the middle class moved to these; OUTSIDE of cities | 43 | |
| 26147049 | Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson; made segregation illegal in SCHOOLS | 44 | |
| 26147050 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that LEGALIZED segregation in the US; 1893 | 45 | |
| 26147051 | NAACP | Group that helped support the Brown v. Board of Education case through the system | 46 | |
| 26147052 | Peace Corps | group created by JFK to support humanitarian causes in developing countries | 47 | |
| 26147053 | New Frontier | name for JFK's plan for economic development; spend money on military, the poor, and NASA | 48 | |
| 26147054 | Sputnik | name of he first artifical satellite in space; launched by USSR | 49 | |
| 26147055 | Cuban Missile Crisis | ten days in Oct 1962 where there world was the closest it has ever been to total nuclear war | 50 | |
| 26147056 | Castro | Communist leader in Cuba | 51 | |
| 26147058 | blockade | stopping supplies from entering a nation or port | 52 | |
| 26147061 | Great Society | name for LBJ's plan to make America good for everyone, including women, minorities and the poor | 53 | |
| 26147062 | Apollo Program | name for group at NASA who was in charge of putting a man on the moon | 54 | |
| 26147063 | 1969 | year the US put a man on the moon | 55 | |
| 26147065 | draft | forced males age 18-35 to join the military | 56 | |
| 26147066 | counter culture | a group that is different from the majority; the Hippie Movement during the 1960s was the largest every | 57 | |
| 26148104 | containment | the belief that the US should STOP THE SPREAD of Communism | 58 |
