Ms. Hillman 1950s and Cold War Begins

At Potsdam Conference, President Harry Truman took a firm stand against heavy reparations b/c

FBI director who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on Communist subversion 

In 1946, what did Winston Churchill call the "iron curtain"

Drills performed by American school children in preparation for a Soviet attack

general in charge of occupied Japan, fired by President Truman for insubordination

After WWII, the Service Men's Readjustment Act (GI Bill) made it possible for veterans to 

Senator Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his anti-Communist witch hunt by 

communist countries of Eastern Europe that were dependent on Soviet Union

The informal relationship between the military and defense industry that may influence policy 

military alliance formed in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union

wrote the novel Tomorrow! to educate the pubic about horrors of atomic war

The 1950s saw major advances in science including improved treatments for

According the John Kenneth Galbraith, postwar US "economy of abundance" was b/c of

To prevent developing nations from allying themselves with the Soviet Union, Eisenhower used

Suburbs accounted for approx. 85% of new home construction and people believed

seized by the Egyptians who intended to use its profits to fund other projects

While many had prosperous lives in the 1950s, at least one in five Americans  

A key factor that enabled the U.S. economy to continue to grow after the war

Post WWII Red Scare began in 1945 when a Soviet clerk defected and

the Long Telegram in which U.S. diplomat George Kennan expressed his proposed policy of

deadly radiation left over after a nuclear blast

separated North Korea and South Korea after the armistice that ended the Korean War

When Soviets blockaded West Berlin, the U.S. responded by 

type of American spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960

The United Nations organized by 1945 had a Security Council to ask members to

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to