Partner Review
Cold War
Directions
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With a partner
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One of you will face the screen; the partner will face
away from the screen toward the partner
A term or phrase will appear on the screen. The
partner facing the screen needs to try to get the
person to say the word on the screen by describing
the term without using the word or parts of the word
(kind of like the game taboo)
Approximately half way through, the partners will
switch
Fair Deal
Truman’s domestic policies that
focused on education & health
care
Yalta Conference
Toward the end of WWII, this
conference focused on post-war
issues
Cold War
Era of rivalry & tension between
the US & Soviet Union where the
two countries did not fight directly
but tried to block each other’s
goals
Atomic Bomb
Nuclear weapon developed in the
Manhattan Project
Joseph Stalin
Communist/Totalitarian Dictator of
the USSR
Iron Curtain
An imaginary line dividing
Communist Eastern Europe from
Democratic/Capitalist Western
Europe.
Korean Conflict / War
War began when North Korea
(with the help of the USSR)
invaded South Korea by crossing
the 38th parallel.
Communism
Political & economic system used
in the USSR where the gov’t
controls policies
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Britain. Coined
the phrase “Iron Curtain”
Truman Doctrine
Example of containment. US sent
money & aid to Greece & Turkey
to prevent communism from
spreading
Harry Truman
President at the start of the Cold
War
Berlin Airlift
US & Britain sent supplies to a
blockaded area for 11 months
Containment
U.S. policy of trying to prevent the
spread of communism
The Marshall Plan
US plan to send financial aid to
countries to help rebuild after
WWII
NATO
US military alliance where if one
member country was attacked, all
members would respond
GI Bill
Plan to help veteran’s transition
back to civilian living by providing
money for a house, education or
job training
Hollywood 10
A group of writers, directors &
actors accused of being
communist
Taft-Hartley Act
Act that favored businesses by
allowing the President to
intervene if a strike hurt the
nation’s interest
United Nations
International peace-keeping
organization created after WWII
Second Red Scare
Fear of communism in the 1950s
Baby boom
An increase in the number of
babies in the 1950s
Mao Zedong
Communist leader of China
HUAC
Organization that tried to find
communists (don’t say this but it
stands for House on Un-American
Activities Commission
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38
Parallel
Dividing line to separate North &
South Korea
SEATO
Organization that tried to prevent
communism from spreading to
Asia (don’t say this but it’s the
South East Asian Treaty
Organization)
Checkers Speech
Nixon went on TV to account for
his finances
Alger Hiss
A spy who was convicted by
evidence in the “pumpkin papers”
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Senator who claimed he had a list
of communists working for the US
gov’t; created a wave of fear
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet leader who took over when
Stalin died
Brinkmanship
Act of going to the edge of war
without actually going to war
CIA
US spy agency created in the
1950s (don’t say this but it stands
for Central Intelligence Agency)
Arms Race
A competition between the US &
USSR to build bigger, better &
faster weapons
Warsaw Pact
Soviet military alliance to counter
NATO
Eisenhower Doctrine
Policy to prevent communism
from spreading to the Middle East
Hydrogen Bomb
A nuclear bomb more powerful
than the atomic bomb
Dr. Jonas Salk
Invented the polio vaccine
Sputnik
The first satellite to orbit space
NASA
US organization created to
develop space after the Soviets
launched Sputnik
Levittown
Cookie cutter houses were built
quickly in these types of towns