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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Began in 1962, when spy planes found Russian nukes in Cuba

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_________ grew as Americans left the cities to buy their own homes

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Suburbs

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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led to end of segregation in public schools

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Abbreviation for buffer between North and South Korea

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DMZ

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The _______ _________ doubled the birth rate between 1946-1964

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Baby Boom

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Competition to build more powerful weapons

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Arms Race

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Marshall Plan

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Loaned 12 billion dollars to help rebuild Europe after WW2

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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Tried and executed for the crime of passing nuke secretes to the Soviets

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Famously false headline ,” ________ DEFEATS TRUMAN”

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Dewey

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Berlin airlift

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Western allies delivered food and supplies to the people of West Berlin

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Warsaw Pact

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Was in alliance between Soviet Union and its allies

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I like ______

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Ike

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Was elected POTUSin 1952

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__________ turn communist after Mao Zeodong lead a revolution in 1942

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China

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America UN forces against communist aggression in this country from 1950 until 1953

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Korea

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Castro

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Overthrew the Cuban government in 1959 and set up communist dictatorship

17
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Truman Doctrine

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Goal was to halt spread of communism

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Unsuccessful attempt by the CIA to overthrow Castro

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Sputnik

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First man made satellite launched by the Soviet Union

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Space race

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The ultimate prize was landing on the moon first

21
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Truman dismissed General _________ father he advocated expanding he Korean War into China

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McCarthur

22
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By the mid-1950s 75% of American homes had a __________ set.

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Television

23
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McCarthy

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Senator from Wisconsin accuser many Americans of being communist in the early 1950s

24
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Churchhill describe the barrier between the east and west as A _________ ____________.

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Iron Curtain

25
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When you hear the air rate siren, head to the nearest _________ shelter

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Fall out

26
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Berlin wall

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Stood from 1961 until 1989 separating eastern and western sides of the city

27
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The US assisted the French in their fight against communist rebels in __________.

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Vietnam

28
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Goal of the United Nations

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Maintain peace and settle disputes

29
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When demand exceeds supply, it leads to a ________ of prices.

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Inflation

30
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Acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty organization, which guarded against Soviet attacks

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NATO

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Superpowers

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Countries that are so strong that they can wield their influence around the globe

32
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Elvis

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King of rock ‘n roll and made his TV debut in 1956

33
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Standard of living

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Measures how comfortable a nation’s population lives

34
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NATO

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Guarded against soviet attacks

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