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| 6493251250 | Taft-Hartley Act | Act that provides balance of power between union and management by designating certain union activities as unfair labor practices; also known as Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA) | 0 | |
| 6493251251 | Operation Dixie | This was aimed at unionizing textile workers & steelworkers, but failed due to fears of racial mixing. Plus, women were hard to organize because they were part time workers widely separated from one another | 1 | |
| 6493251252 | Employment Act of 1946 | Enacted by Truman, it committed the federal government to ensuring economic growth and established the Council of Economic Advisers to confer with the president and formulate policies for maintaining employment, production, and purchasing power | 2 | |
| 6493251253 | GI BIll | Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations | 3 | |
| 6493251254 | Sunbelt | The southern and southwestern states, from the Carolinas to California, characterized by warm climate and rapid population growth | 4 | |
| 6493251255 | Levittown | In 1947, William Levitt used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in surburban New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage. Levittown became a symbol of the movement to the suburbs in the years after WWII | 5 | |
| 6493251256 | Baby Boom | A cohort of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity. These conditions allowed for better education and job opportunities, encouraging high rates of both marriage and fertility | 6 | |
| 6493251257 | Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war. I.E. what to do with Germany as well as planning an offensive on Japan | 7 | |
| 6493251258 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years | 8 | |
| 6493251259 | Bretton Woods Conference | 1943; economic conference of WWII allies with a collective push for open/free markets; set up international monetary fund and world bank | 9 | |
| 6493251260 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation | 10 | |
| 6493251261 | Nuremberg War Crimes Trial | Trial for 22 former Nazi leaders | 11 | |
| 6493251262 | Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin | 12 | |
| 6493251263 | Containment Doctrine | A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, "contain" its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible, but by force if necessary | 13 | |
| 6493251264 | Truman Doctrine | (HT) , 1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey | 14 | |
| 6493251265 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII | 15 | |
| 6493251266 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Created in 1949 under U.S. leadership to create an alliance between most of the Western powers (including Canada) in defense against possible Soviet aggression and communism | 16 | |
| 6493251267 | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | Created during WWII to look for fascists and communists | 17 | |
| 6493251268 | Fair Deal | An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress | 18 | |
| 6493251269 | National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68) | An office created in 1947 to coordinate the president's foreign and military policy advisers. Its formal members are the president, vice president, secretary of state, and secretary of defense, and it is managed by the president's national security assistant | 19 | |
| 6493251270 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea | 20 | |
| 6493251271 | Benjamin Spock | Pediatrician in the 1940s whose book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" influenced the upbringing of children around the world | 21 | |
| 6493251272 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition | 22 | |
| 6493251273 | Jiang Jieshi | (1887-1975) Leader of the Guomindang, or Nationalist Party in China. Fought to keep China from becoming communist, and to resist the Japanese during World War II. He lost control of China in 1949 | 23 | |
| 6493251274 | George F. Kennan | Believed the US should resist Soviet attempts to expand power and influence. "the father of containment" | 24 | |
| 6493251275 | Reinhold Niebuhr | Influential liberal protestant clergyman who crusaded against what he perceived as the drift away from Christian foundations for over five decades after WWI.He was vehemently against fascism, communism, and pacifism, and divided the world into "children of light" and "children of darkness." | 25 | |
| 6493251276 | George C. Marshall | Secretary of State, in charge of state department during and after WW2, came up with the Marshall Plan | 26 |
