Time Periods 8 and 9

The Cold War 1945-1991 was a struggle between The United States and

• China

• The Soviet Union

• Japan

During the Cold War the US adopted this foreign policy

• containment of communism

• Isolationism

• imperialism and empire building

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Cold War in Europe 1945-49

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(b) Cold War in Asia 1949-68

• Berlin Airlift

• The Tet Offfensive - Vietnam War

• The Korean War

• NATO

• The Marshall Plan

• The Domino Theory

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) President Harry Truman 1945-53

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(b) President Eisenhower 1953-61

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(c) President Kennedy 1961-63

• Nuclear Arms Race

• Bay of Pigs Invasion - failure

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Federal Highway Act

• Berlin Airlift

• Ordered atomic bombs dropped on japan to end WW2

• Berlin Wall built

• Suez Crisis - Doctrine to contain communism in Middle East

• Korean War - fired General MacArthur

Migration to this area took place during and after WWII and centered around the availability of military jobs related to WWII and later The Cold War.

• suburbs

• Rustbetl

• Sunbelt

This was considered to be President Eisenhower's most enduring and impressive achievement. Congress passed this at his urging in 1957

• The Social Security Act

• The Great Society

• The Federal Highway Act

Answer explanation

Eisenhower signed the Highway Act into law in part because it was a military necessity. Building the highways was necessary for the transfer of soldiers and nuclear missiles across the country. Bridges were all built 15 feet high to allow for the passage of flatbed trucks carrying missiles to pass beneath.

What action was taken by President Dwight Eisenhower after the Little Rock Nine were not allowed to enter Central High School? (1957)

• He refused to do anything to help them

• He sent in the 101st Airborne to help them

• He sent in the army to prevent them from going to school

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) 1920s

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(b) 1950s

• TV, Nuclear Amrs Race,

• The Lost Generation - Great Gatsby

• Rock and Roll

• radio, Model T, Electricity

• Jazz Music

• Great Migration - Harlem Renaissance

• Beatniks, JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

• Rosa Parks, Brown Case, Little Rock 9

The Domino Theory, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and Tet Offensive were Cold War events related to

• The Korean War

• The Vietnam War

• World War II

The Korean War, The Nuclear Arms Race, Conformity, Consumerism, Rock and Roll, The Beatniks took place during

• The 1930s

• 1940s

• 1940s

• 1950s