Postwar Prosperity and Status

This was the conflict between 1949-1992 in which the United States and Soviet Union never directly confronted each other on the battlefield

• Cold War

• Korean War

• Containment

• Vietnam War

This group made headlines for investigating communist influence in the movie industry in 1947

• HUAC

• Loyalty Review Board

• McCarran Internal Security Act

• Cold War

This group investigated government employees and dismissed those who were deemed to be disloyal.

• Loyalty Review Board

• McCarran Internal Security Act

• HUAC

• McCarthyism

This made it unlawful to do anything that may result in the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States.

• McCarran Internal Security Act

• HUAC

• McCarthyism

• Loyalty Review Board

This was the era where people were randomly being accused of being communist with little or not proof; named after the Senator from Wisconsin.

• McCarthyism

• McCarran Internal Security Act

• HUAC

• Loyalty Review Board

This was the nickname given to the "unfriendly" witnesses who refused to testify during the HUAC's investigation of the movie industry.

• Hollywood Ten

• HUAC

• McCarthy

• Loyalty Review Board

This helped over 1,000,000 former US soldiers pay for college & career education after WWII.

• McCarthyism

• The United Nations

• The Truman Doctrine

• The GI Bill

This was a military alliance including the USSR and its European communist allies.

• The Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• The Yalta Conference

• The Iron Curtain

This led to the persecution of thousands of US citizens suspected of being Communists in the 1940s and 1950s.

• The Mashall Plan

• The CIA

• McCarthyism

• The Bretton Woods Conference

This was the central US foreign policy during the Cold War, aiming to control the growth & power of the USSR

• The United Nations

• McCarthyism

• The Marshall Plan

• Containment