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| Outlined the vision of a world in which nations worked together not by through alliances but through democratic processes. Each nation would protect the other's rights and safety. | ||
| Conference between Stalin and Roosevelt. Stalin agreed to back America in the Pacific once the Germans were undercontrol. In return, the US would establish a second front in Europe. | ||
| Was the official start of the Cold War. Stalin asks for control of the Eastern govt, a communist/democratic govt in Poland and to split Germany into three parts. He recieves everything he asks for because Roosevelt was still hoping Stalin will help with Japan./ less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principle that sidestepped the most difficult problems. | ||
| The new version of the League of Nations. Was set up to help promote peace within the world and help countries work out their problems with one another. | ||
| The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. | ||
| This Chinese leader was generally friendly to the U.S. but his government was corrupt and incompetent with feeble popular support./ led the bitter rival army of the communists and had won one fourth of the population by 1945. | ||
| American commander during the war against Japan; headed American occupation governemnt of Japan after the War; commanded UN forces during the Korean War | ||
| This policy was taken by the U.S. and Allies near the end of 1945 to replace the "open" world. It involved stopping Russia from spreading communism. Truman drew many of his ideas from this American diplomat who warned that the U.S. faced "a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi." | ||
| President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | ||
| This Secreatary of State, suggested a plan where economic assistance would be given to European countries in need. Although Russia did not agree to join, 16 other nations joined. The plan had achieved over 12 million dollars of aid to European nations. | ||
| the agency that would be in control of the Marshall Plan. | ||
| The organization that was in charge of all nuclear research and development./ a nuclear weapon far more power than any other previously used bomb. | ||
| reshaped the US military and diplomatic instituions and expanded the powers of the President./ ran outside of the White House and would govern foreign military. | ||
| replaced the Office of Strategic Services and was responsible for collecting information from other nations. During the Cold War, they also participated in secret politcal operations. | ||
| a massive airlift of supplies taken to the Soviet-side of Berlin for the citizens who were blockcaded. Supplies included food and fuel. | ||
| A treaty of 12 nations who promised each other to help one another if one was under attack. Many European nations prepared themselves for what they thought would be a Soviet attck. | ||
| After this man's nationalist government in China fell, he fled to this island with his political allies and the remnants of his army. | ||
| National Securtiy Council memo #68 US "strive for victory" in cold war, pressed for offensive and a gross increase ($37 bil) in defense spending, determined US foreign policy for the next 20-30 yrs | ||
| Provided for college or vocational training for returning WWII veterens as well as one year of unemployment compensation. Also provided for loans for returning veterens to buy homes and start businesses. | ||
| this plan sought to continue and extend FDR's New Deal. Truman managed to win a minimum wage increase, a public housing bill, and an extension of Social Security to more beneficiaries. He was unsuccessful in his call for national health insurance, aid to education, civil rights legislation, and the repeal of Taft-Hartley. | ||
| outlawed closed shops, secondary boycott and allowed the President to envoke an 80 "cooling off" period for fighting companies. | ||
| This party was formed when southern conservatives were upset by the civil rights proposals. This man from South Carolina was nominated as its nominee. | ||
| provided for the construction of 810,000 units of low-income housing along with a long-term rent subsidy. | ||
| ruled that courts could not be used as private covenants to prevent African Americans from living in certain neighborhoods. | ||
| "black film," film noir refers to a style or mode of filmmaking, which flourished between 1941 and 1958, that presents narratives involving crime or criminal actions in a manner that disturbs, disorients, or otherwise induces anxiety in the viewer | ||
| This celebrated show of the 1950s and early 60s featured dramatic portrayals of the aftermath of nuclear war. | ||
| In June 1950 the N. Korean army invaded S. Korea, quickly taking Seoul. The UN Security Counsil met in emergency session and declared the invasion an unwarranted aggression. After three years of fighting, the war ended in stalemate. | ||
| This surprise American invasion sent North Korean forces fleeing back over the 38th parallel. | ||
| line of latitude that separated North and South Korea | ||
| Truman removed MacArthur from command in Korea as punishment for MacArthur's public criticism of the U.S. government's handling of the war. Intended to confirm the American tradition of civilian control over the military, but Truman's decision was widely criticized. | ||
| an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security".When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee | ||
| When Hollywood producers and writers were called to testify, this group of people refused to answer questions about their own political beliefs and those of their colleagues, they were sent to jail for contempt. | ||
| list that circulated among employers, beginning in 1947, containing the names of persons who should not be hired | ||
| high-ranking member of the State Department, in 1948, Whittaker Chambers a former communist agent told the HUAC that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 38. When Hiss sued him for slander Chamber produced microfilms of the documents (pumpkin papers- Chambers kept them hidden in a pumpkin). The statute of limitations prevented Hiss from being tried for espionage. | ||
| He was a committee member of the House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities (to investigate "subversion"). He tried to catch Alger Hiss who was accused of being a communist agent in the 1930's. This brought Nixon to the attention of the American public. In 1956 he was Eisenhower's Vice-President. | ||
| FBI directer who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on communist subversion to find communist sympathisers and fellow travelers to isolate them and their influence. FBI sends agents to infiltrate groups suspected of subversion and wiretoppa telephnones | ||
| 1950 - Required Communists to register and prohibited them from working for the government. Truman described it as a long step toward totalitarianism. Was a response to the onset of the Korean war. | ||
| This young British scientist seemed to confirm the fears of Americans passing on secrets of the atomic bomb to Russians. He testified that he had delivered to the Russians details of the manufacture of the bomb. These two members of the communist party were accused by the government of passing information of the Manhattan project to the Soviet Union. They were sentenced to death. | ||
| 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 | ||
| leader of the Allied forces in Europe then was elected to be Pres. of the USA | ||
| The Democratic candidate who ran against Eisenhower in 1952. His intellectual speeches earned him and his supporters the term "eggheads". Lost to Eisenhower. | ||
| A speech given by Nixon as acceptance of being Eisenhower's running mate which discussed the accusations that he received illegal campaign donations. He stated the only thing he received was his dog, checkers. |
