1950s and the Cold War

  A military alliance created of western nations during the Cold War. 

The U.S. birthrate exploded with 65 million babies beingborn between 1945-1961

The GI Bill led to growth and prosperity(wealth) in the 1950s.

________is the threat to use nuclear weapons to try andprevent war from happening.

 T/F: Eisenhower supported fighting alimited war to contain communism. 

A Senator from Wisconsin who led a campaignof fear accusing people of being communist.

The _____, a government agency that uses secret or covert operations abroad to stop communism

Truman feared that communist spieswere in our government starting the Second Red Scare

The countries of Eastern Europe were called _________countries after WWII.

Means the willingness of countriesto almost go to war to force the other side to back down.

This U.S. policy duringthe Cold War to try and stop the spread of communism.

TheKorean War began when the ________________ invaded South Korea

What was the plan to help European nations rebuild after WWII called?

The Korean War was a limited war because we took General MacArthur’s advice and invadedChina.

The Rosenbergs werefound innocent after being accused of giving atomic secrets to USSR

Largest public works program in U.S. history, 40,000 +miles of interstate highways  built