Final Review #9 - Early Cold War

In 1948, Stalin blocked land and water routes to West Berlin, prompting the Western Allies to

____________ used his military experience in the Navy to create modern suburban neighborhoods.

The Korean peninsula was divided at the _________ after WW2.

______________ High School was the first high school to be desegregated in the South.

Pres. Eisenhower warned of the impact of _____________ in his farewell presidential speech.

_______, created in 1949, was a mutual defense pact between the U.S. and its allies.

Known as the king of rock-n-roll and credited with bringing the genre into the mainstream.

The first Supreme Allied Commander of NATO was

Senator __________ led the charge against suspected communists in the U.S. gov't in the 1950s.

In 1957 the USSR launched ___________, the first artificial satellite, to start the space race.

__________ were convicted, and executed for espionage (atomic secrets to USSR) in 1953.

The Interstate Highway System was originally created by Pres. Eisenhower to

The _______ was created by the USSR to counter the mutual defense pact by the Western allies.

_______ was the 1954 court case that started the desegregation of schools.

The ________ provided economic aid to help Europe recover from WW2.

Which of these countries did not fall into the Soviet Bloc after World War 2?

The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were ________________ after WW2 because each had atomic weapons.

The __________ doctrine was about containment of communism; "Stop the spread of the Red".

Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were famous 1950's artists who recorded with this company in Memphis, TN.

Many WW2 veterans took advantage of this 1944 legislation for financial assistance in education and home buying.