A very powerful and influential nation (especially the US and the Soviet Union in the Cold War)

American program to assist in rebuilding the economies of western Europe following WWII. Countries given aid had to promise to resists communism!

Imaginary barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of Communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989

Competition between nations (USA VS. USSR) for superiority in developing and acquiring nuclear and other weapons

Idea that the US should give support to countries or people threatened by Soviet forces or communist attack

Idea that if one country falls to communism, the countries surrounding them will fall as well

Countries could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another country (especially a communist nation)

Military alliance of democratic European and North American nations that serves as a counterbalance to the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries

Military alliance of Communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in response to NATO

Created a network of highways that allowed for “speedy, safe cross country travel: while also making possible quick evacuations of key cities in case of (atomic) attack

Period of anticommunist hysteria that demonstrated a fear of Communists taking over the United States

Attempt by Senator Joseph McCarthy to gain political power by exposing “alleged” Communists in the U.S. government and film industry

Committee of the US house of Representatives that investigated allegations/accusations of Communist activity in the USA during the early years of the Cold War

List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC and thus were alleged to have Communists backgrounds

First satellite to be launched into the orbit of the Earth. It was launched by the Soviet Union

Competition between nations regarding achievements in space exploration, particularly the USSR and US

Sharp increase in the birth rate of a population, after World War II

Town or other area where people live in houses near a larger city; the houses are all built quickly and look similar

The belief that it is good to buy and use a lot of things!

Office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor (working with the hands) or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes

Type of retail business or restaurant where an individual (or group) is granted the right to market a company’s goods or services within a certain territory or location

Behaving in the same way as most other people

Substance containing a harmless form of the germs that cause a particular disease. It is given to people, usually by injection, to prevent them from getting that disease

Young person who was part of a social movement of the 1950s & 1960s which focused on artists self-expression and the rejection of the characteristics of conventional society

When an event becomes worse or to make something worse; an increase in the intensity of a conflict by one or more of the participants

the prevention of something, especially war, by having something such as weapons to use as a threat

A formal decision taken at a meeting by means of a vote

policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable boundaries.; the act of preventing the spread of something (communism!)

Political belief that all people are equal and that workers should control the means of producing things

Having the financial ability to live at or above a certain standard of living

A set of beliefs, especially the political beliefs on which people, parties, or countries base their actions

Original boundary between the US and USSR's brief administration areas of Korea; forms the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War

The attempt to weaken or destroy a political system or a government

Military operation that brought food and supplies into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes

- A restriction especially one imposed on commerce

- A measure, like a boycott, taken by a group to enforce demands

an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange in competitive conditions