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| US offered economic aid to any country that applied |
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| By the end of the Marshall Plan, how many countries benefited and how much did the aid total? |
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| Did the the communist countries in Eastern Europe accept aid from the US? |
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| What year did Stalin close the road access to West Berlin? |
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| How did the US and Britain supply West Berlin after Stalin cut off access? |
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| What year did Stalin give up and quietly re-open West berlin? |
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| What nicknames were given to the pilot Lt. Gail Halvorsen and other pilots who dropped candies out of airplanes during the Berlin Airlift? |
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Uncle Wiggly Wings
Raisin Bombers
Candy Bombers
Chocolate Flyers
Chocolate Uncle |
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| What year did the Soviets acquire an atomic bomb? |
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| What does NATO stand for? |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization? |
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| An attack on one is an attack on all |
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| What did HUAC stand for and what did it do? |
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House Un-American Activities Commitee
investigated suspected "un-american activites" |
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| A Republican Senator from Wisconsin who accused many people, often without proof, and ruined careers and lives. |
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| What year was the UN created and headquartered? |
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| What other organization is the UN similar to? |
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| What five countries are permanent on the UNs security council? |
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| What did the G.I. Bill of Rights offer to veterans of WWII? |
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| a house, farm, business loan, college tuition |
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| Who was given the priority in jobs after WWII? |
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| Who was ushered out of the workforce after WWII? |
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| The women who were encouraged to enter the workforce during the war. |
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| Who won in the 1948 election? (Truman vs. Dewey) |
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