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| 167281614 | United Nations | april 1945, an organization whose goal is to maintain peace and avoid war. U.S. joins and is the host nation. | 0 | |
| 167281615 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Statement by U.N. members that all people should have freedom of speech, religion, movement, medical care, and housing. | 1 | |
| 167281616 | Eleanor Roosevelt | First U.S. representative to the U.N. helped to write the UDHR. | 2 | |
| 167281617 | Beginning of the cold war | A competition between the U.S. and the soviet union for power and influence throughout the world. (they didn't actually fight one another.) | 3 | |
| 167281618 | Truman Doctrine | 1947- U.S. will give aid (economic and to military) to any country trying to resist communism. Greece and Turkey are the first to receive aid. | 4 | |
| 167281619 | Marshall Plan | U.S. will give money to European countries to rebuild after world war two. as they grow stronger they can resist communism. U.S gave 13 billion dollars to help europe rebuild. | 5 | |
| 167281620 | Berlin Airlift | In response to the soviet blockade of west berlin the U.S and other allies flew fuel, medicine, and food into west berlin. the soviets eventually gave up the blockade. | 6 | |
| 167281621 | NATO | a military defense packed. an attack on one is an attack on all. (collective security) SEato- south east asian treaty organization. Warsaw pact- The soviet response to NATO. | 7 | |
| 167281622 | US and China | 1949- china becomes a communist nation. Mao Zedong | 8 | |
| 167281623 | Soviet Union | 1949- explodes her first atomic bomb. | 9 | |
| 167281624 | Point four aid | 1950 gave money to 3rd world countries in Latin america africa and asia. | 10 | |
| 167281625 | Watkins vs U.S. | the supreme court ruled witnesses need answer all questions from congressional committies. | 11 | |
| 167281626 | Smith Act | 1940 made it a crime to encourage the over throw of the united states government. | 12 | |
| 167281627 | Loyalty program | 1947- all federal employees must undergo a backround check for any communist activity. | 13 | |
| 167281628 | McCarren Act | 1953- restricted immigration to the united states from Communist countries. | 14 | |
| 167281629 | House Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC) | investigated the movie industry for communist activity. writers producers directors and actors must answer questions. Black List- a list of those accused of being communist and therefore excluded from work in hollywood. | 15 | |
| 167281630 | Alger Hiss Case | 1948 tried as a spy for the soviet union was convinced of lying during investigating. | 16 | |
| 167281631 | Rosenberg Case | 1950 Julius and Ethel- tried and convicted of passing atomic weapon secrets to the soviet union. they claimed to be innocent and were accused because there communist and jews. | 17 | |
| 167281632 | Oppenheimer case | Robert Oppenheimer had led the manhattan project and was opposed to the development of the hydrogen bomb. he could no longer work for the U.S. government and was believed to be soft on communism. | 18 | |
| 167281633 | McCarthyism | senator joseph McCarthy claimed there were communists in the state development and army. he was never able to prove either but ruined many careers. | 19 | |
| 167281634 | Soviet Satellites | Communist nations under control of USSR | 20 | |
| 167281635 | Iron Curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | 21 | |
| 167281636 | Containment | (military) the act of containing something or someone | 22 | |
| 167281637 | President Dwight E Eisenhower | 1953-1961 He was a republican president. | 23 | |
| 167281638 | Massive retaliation | any aggression by the soviet union in europe will be answered with a strong response. | 24 | |
| 167281639 | Brinkmanship | The threat to use nuclear weapons to solve dispute. | 25 | |
| 167281640 | Atoms for peace | Eisenhower proposes peaceful uses of atomic energy. ex: food radiation, nuclear power plants, and medicine. | 26 | |
| 167281641 | Summits and U-2s | a meeting between the leaders of the U.S. and the leaders of the U.S.S.R. -Khrushchev. A U.S. spy plane was shot down over the soviet union ending all hopes of talks between eisenhower and khrushchev. | 27 | |
| 167281642 | Domino Theory | the belief that of one country in S.E. Asia fell to communism others would follow. (Vietnam War) | 28 | |
| 167281643 | Suez Canal | in egypt. egypt takes the canal from control of the british and french. great britain and france send troops to retain the canal. eisenhower persuades great britain and france to remover there troops. today the canal is controlled by egypt. | 29 | |
| 167281644 | Eisenhower Doctrine | u.s. will give aid to any country in the mid east who is trying to resist communism. | 30 | |
| 167281645 | Surbanization/Levittown | The move from cities to the suburbs. 17,000 identical house were built in 4 years. | 31 | |
| 167281646 | Highway Act 1956 | 44,000 miles of roads were built to connect the major cities of the united states. federal government paid for most of the roads. | 32 | |
| 167281647 | Sunbelt | those states of the south and west that grew in population. ex:) florida, texas, arizona, and california.) The rust belt- those states of the north and midwest that lost population. ex:( NY, MA ohio and MI.) | 33 | |
| 167281648 | Earl Warren Court | 1953-1969- eisenhower appoints earl warren chief justice of the United States. Decisions will protect the rights of citizens. T.V. was the entertainment form of the 1950s. ex:) i love lucy. | 34 | |
| 167281649 | Military Industrial Complex- | eisenhower warned against the influence of the military industry. | 35 |
