1. Partner Review Cold War

2. Directions With a partner With a partner One of you will face the screen; the partner will face away from the screen toward the partner One of you will face the screen; the partner will face away from the screen toward the partner A term or phrase will appear on the screen. The partner facing the screen needs to try to get the person to say the word on the screen by describing the term without using the word or parts of the word (kind of like the game taboo) A term or phrase will appear on the screen. The partner facing the screen needs to try to get the person to say the word on the screen by describing the term without using the word or parts of the word (kind of like the game taboo) Approximately half way through, the partners will switch Approximately half way through, the partners will switch

3. Fair Deal Truman’s domestic policies that focused on education & health care

4. Yalta Conference Toward the end of WWII, this conference focused on post-war issues

5. Cold War Era of rivalry & tension between the US & Soviet Union where the two countries did not fight directly but tried to block each other’s goals

6. Atomic Bomb Nuclear weapon developed in the Manhattan Project

7. Joseph Stalin Communist/Totalitarian Dictator of the USSR

8. Iron Curtain An imaginary line dividing Communist Eastern Europe from Democratic/Capitalist Western Europe.

9. Korean Conflict / War War began when North Korea (with the help of the USSR) invaded South Korea by crossing the 38 th parallel.

10. Communism Political & economic system used in the USSR where the gov’t controls policies

11. Winston Churchill Prime Minister of Britain. Coined the phrase “Iron Curtain”

12. Truman Doctrine Example of containment. US sent money & aid to Greece & Turkey to prevent communism from spreading

13. Harry Truman President at the start of the Cold War

14. Berlin Airlift US & Britain sent supplies to a blockaded area for 11 months

15. Containment U.S. policy of trying to prevent the spread of communism

16. The Marshall Plan US plan to send financial aid to countries to help rebuild after WWII

17. NATO US military alliance where if one member country was attacked, all members would respond

18. GI Bill Plan to help veteran’s transition back to civilian living by providing money for a house, education or job training

19. Hollywood 10 A group of writers, directors & actors accused of being communist

20. Taft-Hartley Act Act that favored businesses by allowing the President to intervene if a strike hurt the nation’s interest

21. United Nations International peace-keeping organization created after WWII

22. Second Red Scare Fear of communism in the 1950s

23. Baby boom An increase in the number of babies in the 1950s

24. Mao Zedong Communist leader of China

25. HUAC Organization that tried to find communists (don’t say this but it stands for House on Un-American Activities Commission

26. 38 th Parallel Dividing line to separate North & South Korea

27. SEATO Organization that tried to prevent communism from spreading to Asia (don’t say this but it’s the South East Asian Treaty Organization)

28. Checkers Speech Nixon went on TV to account for his finances

29. Alger Hiss A spy who was convicted by evidence in the “pumpkin papers”

30. Senator Joseph McCarthy Senator who claimed he had a list of communists working for the US gov’t; created a wave of fear

31. Nikita Khrushchev Soviet leader who took over when Stalin died

32. Brinkmanship Act of going to the edge of war without actually going to war

33. CIA US spy agency created in the 1950s (don’t say this but it stands for Central Intelligence Agency)

34. Arms Race A competition between the US & USSR to build bigger, better & faster weapons

35. Warsaw Pact Soviet military alliance to counter NATO

36. Eisenhower Doctrine Policy to prevent communism from spreading to the Middle East

37. Hydrogen Bomb A nuclear bomb more powerful than the atomic bomb

38. Dr. Jonas Salk Invented the polio vaccine

39. Sputnik The first satellite to orbit space

40. NASA US organization created to develop space after the Soviets launched Sputnik

41. Levittown Cookie cutter houses were built quickly in these types of towns