Cold War Review

Operation that moved supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during the Soviet blockade in 1948-49

• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• Containment
• Berlin Airlift

1947 Program of American Economic assistance to rebuild Western Europe

• Containment
• Marshall Plan
• Space Race
• Warsaw Pact

First artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviets and 1957

• Iron Curtain
• Sputnik
• Satellite Nations
• HUAC

competition between the U.S. & Soviet Union for supremacy in space exploration

• Nuclear Arms Race
• NASA
• Space Race
• Satellite Nations

1950-53 conflict over the future of the Korean Peninsula, ended in stalemate

• Korean War
• Cold War
• McCarthyism
• Demilitarized zone

law passed to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education

• HUAC
• GI Bill
• Suburbs
• Baby Boom

1938-established to investigate disloyalty to U.S. government during Cold War

• NATO
• Containment
• National Defense Education Act
• HUAC

Democratic alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved

• Warsaw Pact
• Beat Generation
• NATO
• Mutually assured destruction

American plan of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• HUAC
• Warsaw Pact
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment Policy

Senator who publicly accused people of subversive activities without evidence to back up the charges during the Red Scare

• Levitt
• Salk
• McCarthy
• Truman