Post WW2 America

Returning veterans could take advantage of the ____________, which gave war veterans no or low interest loans on homes and tuition to get a higher education.

• GI Bill

• Levittown

• Taft-Harley Act

• Fair Deal

Levittown is an example of the growth of new communities called ___________.

• suburbs

• urban areas

• rural areas

• national parks

All of the following were policies followed by President Eisenhower (in the 1952 Pres. campaign) EXCEPT...

• Modern Democratization

• expanding Social Security

• Interstate highway system

• liberal in human affairs, but conservative in economic ones

The Red Scare of the 1950's was named after this Senator, who gave a speech that he had a list of 205 members of the government who were communist sympathizers.

• McCarthy

• McConnell

• Pelosi

• Nixon

Senator McCarthy gave a speech that he had a list of 205 members of the government who were communist sympathizers. He made many, often reckless, accusations and increased hysteria of the ________________. Also known as McCarthyism.

• Red Scare

• Yellow Takeover

• Green Wave

• Blue Terror

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover strengthened this and tasked it with holding public hearings to investigate anyone suspected of subversion or Communist sympathies

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Senate Anti-Communist Group (SACG)

• McCarthy Red Scare Initiative (MRSI)

• National Security Council (NSC)

What does this source mean "To Patronize REDS"?

• to support Communists

• to support Republicans

• to hate Democrats

• to hate Chinese

After the botched CIA Bay of Pigs invasion, tension between the US & Communist Cuba under Castro escalates → nuclear missiles spotted in Cuba and after a tense standoff and US-imposed quarantine, the USSR agrees to remove missiles from Cuba & US removes missiles from Turkey.

Closest we've ever been to nuclear war!

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Blockade/Airlift

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Tet Offensive

What is this speech about?

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

• Churchill about the danger of Soviet Union spreading

• Truman about needing to help Western Europe rebuild

• Eisenhower about his 'Modern Republicanism'

• Kennedy about the need for Cuba to remove nukes

What is this speech about?

"At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life...I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures...I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes."

• Churchill about the danger of Soviet Union spreading

• Truman about needing to help Western Europe rebuild

• Eisenhower about his 'Modern Republicanism'

• Kennedy about the need for Cuba to remove nukes