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| 2472735318 | Servicemen's Readjustment Act | Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, this act, also known as the GI Bill, provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. | 0 | |
| 2472735847 | 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. | 1 | |
| 2472736964 | Suburban Growth | The desperate need for housing after the WWII resulted in a construction boom. William J. Levitt led in the development of postwar suburbia with his building and promotion of Levittown, a project of mass-produced, low-priced family homes on Long Island, New York. Low interest rates on mortgages that were both government-insured and tax deductible made the move from city to suburb affordable for almost any family of modest means | 2 | |
| 2472739395 | Levittown | Towns in which houses were built on an assembly line. The houses were cheap and all families could afford them. | 3 | |
| 2472739933 | Sunbelt | The southern and southwestern states, from the Carolinas to California, characterized by warm climate and recently, rapid population growth | 4 | |
| 2472740406 | Harry Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | 5 | |
| 2472741298 | 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. Joint committee on the economic report would propose legislation | 6 | |
| 2472742803 | Inflation and labor unions | The US faced inflation and labor unrest at home; trade unionists demanded pay increased and employers refused. | 7 | |
| 2472744139 | Committee on Civil Rights | Truman wanted to challenge racial discrimination, so he used his executive powers to establish this organization (1946) | 8 | |
| 2472745115 | Racial integration of the military | The Truman civil rights proposal that was NOT blocked by Southern congressman was the _____________. | 9 | |
| 2472748396 | 22nd Amendment | Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two terms of office. | 10 | |
| 2472749159 | Henry Wallace | A former Democratic who ran on the New Progressive Party due to his disagreement on Truman's policy with the Soviets. He caused the Democratic party to split even more during the election season. | 11 | |
| 2472751835 | States Rights Party | In 1948, a group of southern Democrats known as the Dixiecrats bolted from their party and supported Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as the presidential candidate of the States Rights party. | 12 | |
| 2472753024 | 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. | 13 | |
| 2472754895 | 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. | 14 | |
| 2472755337 | Soviet Union | A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991. | 15 | |
| 2472755839 | 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 | 16 | |
| 2472756775 | United Nations | A league of most of the nations of the world that help to regulate world problems and decide upon the outcome of states | 17 | |
| 2472757389 | Security Council | Five permanent members( US, UK, France, China, USSR) with veto power in the UN. Promised to carry out UN decisions with their own forces. | 18 | |
| 2472758141 | World Bank | A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments | 19 | |
| 2472758735 | Communist Satellites | nations effectivly run by USSR , used as "buffer states" | 20 | |
| 2472760200 | Occupation Zones | Germany split into four between the USSR, the U.S., Britain, and France; Berlin split into four as well, with the USSR controlling the Eastern half and the remaining half split between the remaining three nations | 21 | |
| 2472760541 | Iron Curtain | (HT) , Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations | 22 | |
| 2472761184 | Winston Churchill | A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. | 23 | |
| 2472762424 | Traditionalists | (Postwar Europe) believed the cold war was all the Soviets' fault | 24 | |
| 2472766552 | Revisionists | Marxists who believed that workers empowered to vote could obtain their ends through democratic means without revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, known as revisionism. | 25 | |
| 2472767615 | George Kennan | He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. | 26 | |
| 2472768045 | Dean Acheson | He was Secretary of State under Harry Truman. It is said that he was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than those that the two were named for. | 27 | |
| 2472768601 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 28 | |
| 2472769208 | Truman Doctrine | 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 | 29 | |
| 2472769696 | Marshall Plan | A ____ that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This ____ offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 30 | |
| 2472770969 | Berlin Airlift | supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin | 31 | |
| 2472771898 | West Germany | British, American and French zone of Germany and was democratic. | 32 | |
| 2472772644 | East Germany | Communist Germany | 33 | |
| 2472773550 | NATO | ..., North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 34 | |
| 2472774013 | National Security Act | Passed in 1947 in response to perceived threats from the Soviet Union after WWII. It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council. | 35 | |
| 2472774639 | Nuclear arms race | the Cold War competition between superpowers to develop more powerful and greater numbers of nuclear weapons | 36 | |
| 2472775209 | NSC-68 | 1950 National Security Council document, authored largely by Paul Nitze, which claimed that the ultimate ambition of the Soviet state was the "ultimate elimination" of the United States, and called for a major escalation of American defense forces, both nuclear and conventional. | 37 | |
| 2472776945 | U.S.- Japanese Security Treaty | A bilateral alliances between the US and Japan, created in 1951 against the potential Soviet threat to Japan. The US maintains troops in Japan and is committed to defend japan if attacked. Japan pays the US to offset about half the cost of maintaining the troops. | 38 | |
| 2472778041 | Douglas MacArtur | angered by Truman's negotiations with North Korea; threatened to bomb North Korea and China against Truman's order; fired | 39 | |
| 2472778602 | Chinese civil war | War between communist Mao Zse Tong and nationalist Chaing-Kai Shek. The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan | 40 | |
| 2472778916 | Mao Zedong | ..., This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life. | 41 | |
| 2472779392 | People's Republic of China | commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia Mao Zedong beat Jiang Jiesh and gained control of the country he called it the Peoples Republic of China.a socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party system | 42 | |
| 2472779930 | Kim II Sung | created the Communist government of North Korea and has existed since World War II and ruled North Korea as a dictator today | 43 | |
| 2472781031 | Syngman Rhee | Korean leader who became president of South Korea after World War II and led Korea during Korean War. | 44 | |
| 2472782084 | U.N police action | the United Nations starting a military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order | 45 | |
| 2472782961 | 38th parallel | Line that divided Korea - Soviet Union occupied the north and United States occupied the south, during the Cold War. | 46 | |
| 2472783507 | soft on communism | this charge was brought on democrats (by republicans) who claimed that democrats did little to oppose the Soviets and their beliefs | 47 | |
| 2472784100 | Loyalty review Board | (1947) federal board set up by President Truman that checked up on government workers, and dismissed those found to be communist. | 48 | |
| 2472784622 | Smith Act | 1940 act which made it illegal to speak of or advocate overthrowing the U.S. government. Was used by Truman 11 times to prosecute suspected Communists | 49 | |
| 2472785472 | Dennis et al v. United States | this court case upheld tht it's illegal to advocate te overthrow of the government by force or belong to an organization with tht intention | 50 | |
| 2472786306 | McCarran Internal Security Act | 1950 Act passed over President Harry S. Truman's veto which required registration of American Communist party members, denied them passports, and allowed them to be detained as suspected subversives. | 51 | |
| 2472787173 | House Un-American Activities Committee | A congressional committee created to search out disloyal Americans and Communists. | 52 | |
| 2472788288 | Hollywood Blacklists | Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests. | 53 | |
| 2472788677 | Alger Hiss | A U.S. State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 by Whittaker Chambers and prosecuted by Richard Nixon; convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950 | 54 | |
| 2472790100 | Freedom of expression in arts | Part of the First Amendment protecting freedom of speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. | 55 | |
| 2472790567 | Rosenberg Case | Klaus Fuchs, a British scientist, who had worked on the Manhattan Project, admitted giving A-bomb secrets to the Russians. An FBI investigation traced another spy ring to Julius and Ethel ________. After a controversial trial in 1951, the __________ were found guilty of treason and executed for the crime in 1953. | 56 | |
| 2472791796 | Joseph McCarthy | 1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists | 57 |
