The Cold War Review Guide

Joesph McCarthy/McCarthyism

A man who had a campaign where any suspected Communists would be wrongly arrested, WITHOUT ANY concrete evidence.

The Second Red Scare/Communism

A period of INTENSE FEAR of Communism AFTER WW2.

The Domino Theory

The fear of all Countries EVENTUALLY falling to Communism, like Dominoes hitting each other & falling down.

The Iron Curtain

An ideological border that separated the Soviet-Controlled Eastern Bloc from the Western-Democratic Nations from 1945 to 1991.

Joesph Stalin & The U.S.S.R.

The EARLY LEADER of the Soviet Union

The Marshall Plan

A program that gave money to EASTERN-EUROPEAN Countries AFTER WW2

The Truman Doctrine

The U.S PROMISING support of ALL ANTI-COMMUNIST Countries AFTER WW2

Containment

The U.S’s STRATEGY AGAINST Communism, that we CANNOT completely defeat Communism, but we can PREVENT it’s spread/influence.

The Military industrial Complex

A Nation’s Military Establishment

The Bay Of Pigs

The U.S’s HORRIBLE FAILURE of trying to INVADE/TAKEOVER CUBA.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

A 13 DAY conflict between the U.S and the U.S.S.R

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, in Dealey Plaza

Betty Friedan & The Problem That Has No Name

A book about how women felt like they were just housewives in the 1950’s, and had no other life purposes.

Levittown & The Birth Of Suburbs

The WORLD’S FIRST EVER Suburb in New York in 1951

Conformity

People were scared of being different in the 1950’s, because they were seen as Communists with no evidence.

Consensus Culture

When people BELIEVE that Cultural Beliefs are SHARED & LEARNED across ALL people.

Betty Friedan’s Book

The Feminine Mystique

What is the chapter of Betty Friedan’s Book?

The Problem That Has No Name