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1
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Why is called a Cold War?

A

No large-scale fighting

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2
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Capitalism

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Buy/sell what you want

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3
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communism

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Gov. Fully controlled

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4
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containment

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US must take aggressive steps to contain communist expansion

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5
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Iron Curtain

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Line across Europe where NATO and Warsaw touched

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6
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NASA

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national Aeronautic Space Administration

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7
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Domino Theory

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Once one country falls, they all will

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8
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US Leader when Cold War started

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Truman

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9
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Soviet leader when Cold War started

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Joseph Stalin

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10
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Fidel Castro

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Cuban Leader during Cold War

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11
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3rd President in Cold War

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Kennedy

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12
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Nikita Khrushchev

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Took over after Stalin

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13
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Eisenhower

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US war general, 2 president in Cold War

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14
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William Levitt

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introduced mass-produced housing based on navy model

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15
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Who created containment

A

George Kennan

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16
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Who took over after Jfk

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LBJ

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17
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Mao Zedong

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Communist leader of mainland china

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18
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chaing Kai-shek

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Taiwan bound leader of the kuomintang

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19
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general MacArthur

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sent to push Koreans behind 38th parallel, get fired for crossing a river that was too far

20
Q

Lee Harvey Oswald

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killed Kennedy

21
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Jack Ruby

A

Kills Oswald

22
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Truman doctrine

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Truman’s Domestic policy, our right to help countries threatened by communism

23
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Marshall Plan

A

US give economic aid to European countries threatened by communism

24
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Berlin Airlift

A

Ppl in Berlin were feeling hopeless so US dropped supplies

25
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NATO

A

North-Atlantic Treaty Organization

26
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Warsaw Pact

A

Soviet Union, Opposing NATO

27
Q

Nuclear arms race

A

SU and US competing about arms

28
Q

Cuban Missile crisis

A

USSR had a misslie ready to shoot us in cuba, but we told them that we had one in turkey reafy to shoot them, and Kennedy kept us out of war

29
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bay of pigs

A

US trained Cuban immigrants by CIA to overthrow Castro

30
Q

Space Race

A

US and USSR competing to send stuff to space

31
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Sputnik/Vanguard

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Sputnik was first thing is space sent by SU, Vanguard was US’s try but it failed; nickname “flopnick”

32
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HUAC

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House Un-American Activities Committee, created by Hollywood 10

33
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McCarthyism

A

thought that everyone was secretly communist, create my McCarthy

34
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the Rosenberg s

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First couple sent to death penalty, executed for alleged atom spying

35
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Klaus Fuch

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Double-Agent

36
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Hollywood 10

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Group of famous people who got blacklisted, created HUAC

37
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Beat Genereation

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writers who were “beat with the current industrial state”

38
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GI bill

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Gave $ to GIs

39
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McCarran Act

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Required all communists to register/provide a list of members

40
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Suburbs

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Residential area on fringes of major cities, 75% of new house construction

41
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Baby boom

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1946-1964, higher incomes and better healthcare, causes 20% increase of babies

42
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Election of 1948

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Dewey(R)
Truman (D) (wins)
Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
Wallace (progressive)

43
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Election of 1952

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Eisenhower (R) (wins)
Stevenson (D)

44
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election of 1960

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JFK(D) (wins), VP is LBJ
Nixon (R)

45
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massive Retaliation

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A country threatened to use nuclear weapons in response to an act of aggression by an enemy

46
Q

Korean leader in the north

A

Kim il Sung

47
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Korean leader in the south

A

Syngman Rhee