Postwar America

Select the nations that were directly involved in the Cold War

• United States

• Germany

• U.S.S.R.

• Great Britain

The couple that was executed for spying and allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union were the                  

• Hiss’s
• Greenglass’s
• Rosenberg’s
• Chamber’s

These changes in the list above contributed most directly to an increase in

• defense spending

• consumer spending

• foreign spending

• domestic spending

What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

• The Soviets attempted to install nuclear weapons in Haiti

• The Soviets invaded Hungary

• The US tried to overthrow the Cuban communist government

• A meeting in the Soviet Union to develop the Warsaw pact

Cold War

• A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

• A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

• First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.

Trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict; think “playing chicken”.

• Loyalty Review Boards
• Policy of Containment
• Brinkmanship
• Venona Papers

What happened to many eastern European countries after WWII?

• They were dependent on the Marshall Plan

• They developed democratic governments

• They became economic world powers

• They became Soviet satellite states

Democracy

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

The Eisenhower administration is responsible for the ___________, which is still important today.

• cable TV

• landing on the moon

• interstate highway system

• communication satellite system

Super Powers

• The United States and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War

• American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

• An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO