Post War America

Who are baby boomers? 

• People that are not able to speak
• period after WW2 resulting in high birth rates
• People born after the vietnam war 
• People who helped end WW2

What was the US plan to rebuild Europe after WW2?

• UN
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• CIA

This gave US WW2 veterans help for college, etc.

• UN
• NATO
• GI Bill
• CIA

The American policy to prevent the expansion of communism is known as ___. 

• Deterrence
• Containment
• Procrastination
• Mutually Assured Destruction

The _____ was a Cold War policy that pledged U.S. support for free peoples resisting communism.

• Truman Doctrine
• Marsha
  Marshall PlanRed ScareIron Curtain
  ll Plan
• Red Scare
• Iron Curtain

____ was a post World War II organization where the members pledged to seek to settle disagreements peacefully and prevent or end future wars.

• The League of Nations
• The United Nations
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• The Warsaw Pact

How did the Soviet Union respond when France, Britain, and the United States merged their zones and formed West Germany?

• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift
• H.U.A.C. [House Un-American Activities Committee]

Capitalism is:

• an economy with private ownership of goods and services
• a classless society
• linking of nations through trade
• equality of rights for all people

The dividing line between communist countries and free countries was called the _____.

• Berlin Wall
• Iron Curtain
• Front Line
• Mason-Dixon

"Domino Theory" means:

• if one country falls to communism, more will
• playing dominoes with Soviet Union is not fun
• if a country falls to communism it will likely stop the spread of communism
• cereal will be stale