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Jeopardy
Guerra Fria
JeopardyForeign Policy Home Front
Cold War Culture and
Poverty
Cold War Turns Hot
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Foreign Policy
The purpose of the
meetings at Yalta and Potsdam
Discuss the fate of post-
WWII Europe
Foreign Policy
Soviet goals at the Potsdam Conference
Establishing friendly
Communist states to
promote Soviet interests
Foreign Policy
What does the “Iron Curtain”
refer to? Growing Soviet domination of
Eastern Europe
Foreign Policy
What did the Marshall Plan do Offered US
economic aid to any country
to spread democracy
Foreign Policy
What was the Warsaw Pact founded in response to
NATO
Foreign Policy
U.S. response to the Berlin Blockade of
1948 Airlift food and supplies into
Berlin
Home Front
This congressional organization
was created to investigate Communist subversives
House Un-American Activities
Committee
Home Front
These two American
citizens were convicted of
giving nuclear secrets to the
Soviets
Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg
Home Front
Effects of the GI Bill of
RightsHelped
millions of veterans
attend college and get job
training
Home Front
Describe the tactic of
“McCarthyism” used by Senator Joseph
McCarthy
Used fear to publically
accuse Americans of Communist activities
without any real evidence
Home Front
The role of women in
society in the 1950s
Pushed back into lower
paying jobs or back into the home to raise
children
Home Front
Similarities between Red Scare after
WWI and Cold War after
WWII
Fear of Communism
leads to repression of civil liberties
Cold War Culture and Poverty
Describe the “baby boom” Great increase
in birth rate that results
from the end of World War II
Cold War Culture and Poverty
What is Levittown
First planned suburban
community
Cold War Culture and Poverty
Attempt by Congress to
limit the power of labor
unions Taft-Hartley Act
Cold War Culture and Poverty
What is Planned
Obsolescence Make goods/technology seem out of date so people buy more stuff
Cold War Culture and Poverty
These people rejected all
forms of convention
(jobs, hygiene, religion) Beatniks, Beat
Movement
Cold War Culture and Poverty
Describe the changes in the U.S. economy
post-WWII
Moves away from
manufacturing/ production, and towards
technology and service
Cold War Turns Hot
The United States got
involved in the Korean War because of
this Cold War strategy Containment
Cold War Turns Hot
The outcome of the Korean
WarNorth and
South Korea remained
divided into two countries
Cold War Turns HotStrategy to be prepared to go
to war, even be on the edge
of war, without
actually going to war
Brinkmanship
Cold War Turns HotHow did
Hydrogen Bomb help lead to the
idea of Mutual Assured
Destruction (MAD)?
Bigger nuclear weapons
means world will now be destroyed in nuclear war
Cold War Turns Hot
CIA-led coup in this country
kicked out this leader to support the United Fruit
Company
Guatemala, Arbenz
Cold War Turns Hot
What regions are in the
First, Second, and Third Worlds?
First = U.S and allies
Second – USSR and allies
Third: neutral developing
nations