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1. Define the Cold War.

2. What were the two sides of the Cold War?

3. What is the Iron Curtain?

4. Define capitalist democracy.

5. Define communist dictatorship.

6. What is the Truman Doctrine?

7. What is the Marshall Plan?

8. Describe the Berlin Airlift.

9. What is NATO? How does the Soviet Union respond?

10. Describe the Korean War.

11. What was the outcome of the Korean War?

12. What is suburbanization?

13. What is the Red Scare and how did it impact American society?

14. How was Eisenhower’s approach to the Cold War different from Truman?

15. Describe the Space Race.

16. What was Kennedy’s domestic plan called?

17. What happened to Kennedy at the end of his presidency?

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1.the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

2. united states and soviet union.

3. a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

4.A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism,also referred to as market democracy, is a political and economic system that combines capitalism and strong social policies.

5. communist state is the dictatorship of the proletariat, where the advanced elements of the proletariat are the ruling class. In Marxist–Leninist thinking, the socialist state is the last repressive state since the next stage of development is that of pure communism, a classless and stateless society.

6.the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.

7. Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II. It was formally called the European Recovery Program.

8.a 1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city. The operation lasted from June 1948 until September 1949.

9. by creating its own military alliance with seven other Eastern European communist states in 1955, dubbed the Warsaw Pact. But the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ensuing collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, paved the way for a new post-Cold War security order in Europe

10.conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South.

11.After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the fighting of the Korean War to an end. The armistice ended America's first experiment with the Cold War concept of “limited war.”

12. The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city. In the United States, many suburbs were created after World War II, during a period of tremendous growth in population and industry.

13.Levin wrote that the Red Scare was "a nationwide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent—a revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of Life".

14.The Truman administration was concerned with Stalin's expansionist tendencies, and sought to contain him with conventional warfare. Eisenhower was more concerned with cutting taxes than pursuing expensive overseas engagements. He used nuclear capabilities as a deterrent against the Soviets.

15.The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight.

16. the new frontier

17. On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas.

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