Cold War/50's review

What is Containment?

• attacks on suspected communist in the U.S.

• policy to stop the spread of communism

• money to stop the spread of communism

• political rivalry for world dominance

What is the Marshall Plan?

• attacks on suspected communist in the U.S.

• policy to stop the spread of communism

• money to stop the spread of communism

• Money to rebuild Europe after WWII

What is the Truman Doctrine

• attacks on suspected communist in the U.S.

• policy to stop the spread of communism

• money to stop the spread of communism

• Money to rebuild Europe after WWII

What is McCarthyism?

• attacks on suspected communist in the U.S.

• policy to stop the spread of communism

• money to stop the spread of communism

• political rivalry for world dominance

Planned Obsolescence

• desire to buy goods

• products designed to wear out

• pressure to fit in

• writers who criticized the 1950s society

What is the Cold War

• attacks on suspected communist in the U.S.

• policy to stop the spread of communism

• political rivalry for world dominance

• Money to rebuild Europe after WWII

Consumerism

• desire to buy goods

• products designed to wear out

• pressure to fit in

• writers who criticized the 1950s society

The United States followed _______________ as its political system, while the Soviet Union followed __________.

• Capitalism, Communism

• democracy, capitalism

• communism, totalitarianism

• democracy, totalitarianism

Social Conformity

• desire to buy goods

• products designed to wear out

• pressure to fit in

• writers who criticized the 1950s society

Beat Movement

• desire to buy goods

• writers who criticized the 1950s society

• pressure to fit in

• huge increase in birth rate