1) President Truman offers Greece & Turkey military aid to prevent them from being communist a) Marshall Plan b) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) c) Truman Doctrine d) space race 2) Sent money to rebuild Europe after WWII a) Marshall Plan b) Senator Joseph McCarthy c) Interstate Highway Act d) Truman Doctrine 3) North Korea invades South Korea. It is the 1st time that United Nations troops are used. At the end of the war the 2 countries stay divided at the 38th parallel a) Arms Race b) agricultural boom c) Korean War d) Marshall Plan 4) increase in nuclear weapons by the US and Soviet Union a) McCarthyism b) Arms Race c) Senator Joseph McCarthy d) Polio Vaccine 5) created by Truman to investigate un-American activities a) space race b) Loyalty Review Boards c) Arms Race d) Korean War 6) Congress investigated and accused people of being Communist (especially in Hollywood)  a) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) b) Polio Vaccine c) space race d) Truman Doctrine 7) tactic used to bully people and destroy their reputation over alleged communism a) McCarthyism b) space race c) Polio Vaccine d) Sputnik 8) led the hunt for Communists in America. He used false accusations to ruin peoples reputations a) Interstate Highway Act b) Senator Joseph McCarthy c) GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) d) Korean War 9) sold secrets about the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. They were executed for it in 1950. a) Korean War b) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) c) The Rosenburgs d) space race 10) competition between US & Soviets to gain technological superiority a) The Rosenburgs b) space race c) Interstate Highway Act d) Senator Joseph McCarthy 11) Created by the Soviet Union, it was the 1st man made satellite.  It caused the US to increase funding for science & technology. a) Polio Vaccine b) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) c) Sputnik d) The Rosenburgs 12) Created by Eisenhower to make sure that the military could travel from east to west coast quickly in time times of war a) Arms Race b) Polio Vaccine c) The Rosenburgs d) Interstate Highway Act 13) the need for homes increases because veterans return home and low interest rates make housing affordable. a) Korean War b) housing boom c) Arms Race d) agricultural boom 14) caused because we have a population growth, and need more food a) conformity b) Sputnik c) Interstate Highway Act d) agricultural boom 15) a large increase in births between 1946 & 1965 because veterans return home and start families a) Senator Joseph McCarthy b) baby boom c) space race d) Truman Doctrine 16) paid for veterans to go to college, which leads to higher paying jobs and an increase in consumer spending a) The Rosenburgs b) Loyalty Review Boards c) GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) d) Sputnik 17) created by Jonas Salk it eliminated a disease that was crippling children a) baby boom b) Polio Vaccine c) conformity d) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) 18) to go along with society's norms a) Korean War b) Polio Vaccine c) agricultural boom d) conformity 19) to go against society's norms (rock & roll, the beatniks) a) GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) b) The Rosenburgs c) Senator Joseph McCarthy d) non-conformity

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