CPUSH Unit 14: The Cold War

Alan Freed "created" rock n' roll by

For the goal of collective security, the Russians created

The Rosenbergs were executed because they planned to

Jonas Salk helped to invent a vaccine for which disease?

Richard Nixon claimed in a televised speech that the only campaign gift he ever accepted was

Levittown houses were designed to be all of the following EXCEPT

Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator from which state?

Jackie Robinson desegregated

Brown v. Board of Education overturned the case of

Ray Kroc was instrumental in the creation of franchises when he helped to popularize

The term beatnik originally meant

Sputnik?

Joe Welch embarrassed Joe McCarthy when McCarthy decided to look for communists in

Harry Truman dramatically defeated Thomas Dewey in the election of

Douglas MacArthur was fired because

Which company was instrumental in the creation of transistors?

For more than twenty years, this country was also called China

To keep Western Europe from becoming communist, the US used

Philo Farnsworth was the teenager who gets credit for the creation of

Who was effected by the "problem that has no name?"

Nuclear Warfare carries with it the acronym

Zionism was instrumental in the creation of

A conglomerate is a big business that

Blacklists were secret lists that contained the names of suspected

The concept of Brinksmanship said that the leaders of the country had to be willing to

Eastern European nations dependent on the Russians for protection and money were known as

The concept behind containment was that communism would die out if

The major difference between Yalta and Potsdam was the fact that at Potsdam

Who coined the term "iron curtain"?

The United Nations was the replacement for