Cold War Home Front

Accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury (lying).

• Alger Hiss
• Francis Gary Powers
• Joseph McCarthy
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Population explosion post-WWII.

• Baby Boom
• Generation X
• Millenials
• PreMillenials

A list of people whom the House Un-American committee believed had a communist background.

• Blacklist
• Pentagon Papers
• Venona Papers
• Confidential List

Under Eisenhower, the interstate highway system was expanded to 41,000 miles allowing motorists to travel easily and allowed for troop movement and evacuation routes.

• Interstate Highway Act
• War Powers Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• 25th Amendment

Committee formed to investigate communist influence in the United States.  It was most famous for its investigation into Hollywood’s movie industry where the committee believed that communists were sneaking propaganda into films.

• House Un-American Activities Committee
• Vienna Committee
• FBI
• McCarthism

The Cold War was a conflict between what two countries?
(These countries fought with ideas, words, and money)

• The United States and France
• The United States and Germany
• Japan and Italy
• The United States and the Soviet Union

A non-combative conflict between the United States (democracy) and the Soviet Union (communism).  Each nation was attempting to establish itself as the world’s greatest power.

• Cold War
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• WWII

Unfair accusation of people of being disloyal without proof.  People were so afraid of communism that they were ready to accuse and convict anyone on just someone’s say so.

• McCarthyism
• Deterrent
• Red Scare
• Brinkmanship

Encouraged veterans to get an education by paying part of their tuition and also guaranteed them a year’s worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting.

• GI Bill
• McCarthyism
• War Powers Act
• 26th Amendment

Developed a vaccine for poliomyelitis (polio).

• Jonas Salk
• Albert Einstein
• FDR
• Francis Gary Powers