STAAR: Cold War (1950's and 1960's)

The Baby Boom led to the growth of 

• suburbs
• inner cities
• agriculture
• defense spending

Lower taxes, Air Conditioning & Defense industry jobs led the migration of Americans to what region?

• Sun Belt
• Rust Belt
• Bible Belt
• Gold Belt

What was Truman's response to Stalin's blockade of West Berlin?

• leave Berlin
• airlift supplies
• break through blockade
• nothing

What alliance provided Collective Security against a possible Soviet attack?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• NAFTA
• United Nations

What caused the Cold War arms race?

• Soviets detonate the atomic bomb
• Soviets blockade Berlin
• Soviets invade Afghanistan
• Soviets build the Berlin Wall

What U.S. Senator started the Red Scare when he claimed 205 communists were working in the U.S. State Department?

• Joseph McCarthy
• Douglas MacArthur
• Julius Rosenberg
• Alger Hiss

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were caught, tried, & executed for treason as a result of what?

• Venona Papers
• Bryce Report
• Manhattan Project
• Oppenheimer Report

Where was the Truman Doctrine tested?

• Greece & Turkey
• West Germany & France
• Poland & Czechoslovakia
• Greece & Italy

What U.S. foreign policy pledged aid to any nation facing a communist threat?

• Truman Doctrine
• Roosevelt Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Monroe Doctrine

"Keeping up with the Joneses" is an example of 

• consumerism
• rationing
• recycling
• Beat Movement