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1950's J.P. Nukk
Question | Answer |
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What was the NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
What was the Iron curtain | The line that divided East and West Europe |
Who was Sputnik | A device in space that Soviet Union launched, to spy on us |
What was the baby boom | The 15 year period that babies were born much more often |
What was Arms Race | Having more weapons/bombs than the enemy |
What was a Truman Doctrine | When Truman promised aid |
what was the 38th Parallel | The line between the Koreas |
Containment | Holding Communism |
What was the interstate highway act | The act which got the US highways |
McCarthyism | The way of accusing people if they were communists |
suburbs | towns that are away from cities |
CIA | spies from the US Central Intelligence Association |
Warsaw Pact | Eastern/communist Europe |
Berlin Airlift | When the US dropped in supplies to Berlin |
Cold War | The nonviolent war between Soviet Union and the USA |
Eisenhower | The president of the USA during the cold war |
Truman | The president of the USA that wanted to bomb Soviet Union |
Marshall | The man who aided Germany and got half of Germany to the democratic side |
Elvis | The rock and roll star in the 1950's |
MacArthur | Leaded the US troops in the Korean War |