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| 351331292 | Tom Pendergrast | political machine that helped Truman become Vice President | 0 | |
| 351331293 | demobilization | reducing the size of army and navy to an appropriate peace time size | 1 | |
| 351331294 | reconversion | move economy back to a peace setting from war setting | 2 | |
| 351331295 | OPA | tells merchants what to charge for things/ what wages to give workers abolished in December | 3 | |
| 351331296 | GI bill | -soldiers can go back to the job they had prior to the war -veterans get an advantage when looking for a job -veterans get free tuition -veterans' hospitals are established -veterans get an advantage for buying a house (lowest mortgage rate) | 4 | |
| 351331297 | Employment Act of 1946 | stimulus program to spend a lot of money to create jobs | 5 | |
| 351331298 | Council of Economic Advisers | economists that advise the president on how to best stimulate the economy | 6 | |
| 351331299 | containment | making sure Russians/ communists do not take over other countries | 7 | |
| 351331300 | National Security Act | -establishes Department of Defenses -creates air force -creates CIA | 8 | |
| 351331301 | Nathan Hale | "I regret that I only have one life to lose for my country" | 9 | |
| 351331302 | NSA | group that advises the president on potential threats | 10 | |
| 351331303 | presidential succession act | if the president and vp aren't available, the speaker of the house is pres...next comes president pro temp, etc | 11 | |
| 351331304 | amendment xxii | limits president to 2 terms or 10 years | 12 | |
| 351331305 | Taft-Hartley Act | strikers have to go back to work for 80 days and negotiate with their manager..if they still cannot reach an agreement, they can go back to striking | 13 | |
| 351331306 | Harry Truman | Democrat candidate for the Election of '48 | 14 | |
| 351331307 | Tom Dewey | Republican candidate for the Election of '48 | 15 | |
| 351331308 | Henry Wallace | Progressive candidate for the Election of '48 | 16 | |
| 351331309 | Strom Thurmand | dixicrat candidate for the Election of '48 | 17 | |
| 351331310 | Jackie Robinson | first black major league baseball player played for the dodgers | 18 | |
| 351331311 | Executive Order 9981 | desegregated american military | 19 | |
| 351331312 | de jure segregation | segregation enforced by law | 20 | |
| 351331313 | goals of fair deal | 1. civil rights 2. federal aid to segregation 3. medical care for the aged | 21 | |
| 351331314 | filibuster | talk something to death in the senate | 22 | |
| 351331315 | cloture | official ending to a debate | 23 | |
| 351331316 | AMA | professional association of doctors | 24 | |
| 351331317 | lobbyist | people who go to congress to convince them to vote a certain way | 25 | |
| 351331318 | partisan president | driven by loyalty to political party rather than for the good of the country | 26 | |
| 365888318 | Adlai Stevenson | democrat candidate for election of '52 | 27 | |
| 365888319 | Tom Sparkman | democrat VP for election of '52 | 28 | |
| 365888320 | Dwight Eisenhower | republican candidate for election of '52 | 29 | |
| 365888321 | Richard Nixon | republican vp for election of '52 | 30 | |
| 365888322 | korean war sick economy | issues for election of '52 | 31 | |
| 365888323 | dynamic conservatism | Eisenhower's policy big government is good "more business in government and less government in business" | 32 | |
| 365888324 | practices | hired by Ike to reduce gov regulations people that are business friendly | 33 | |
| 365888325 | interstate highway system | largest/ most expensive public work system during Eisenhower's term | 34 | |
| 365888326 | st. lawrence seaway | connects great lakes to the Atlantic ocean built by US and Canada | 35 | |
| 365888327 | national defense act | provides money to states to improve math and science education | 36 | |
| 365888328 | ... | -NASA -Alaska and Hawaii become states | 37 | |
| 365888329 | Dwight Eisenhower | republican candidate for election of '56 | 38 | |
| 365888330 | Richard Nixon | republican vp for election of '56 | 39 | |
| 365888331 | Adlai Stevenson | democrat candidate for election of '56 | 40 | |
| 365888332 | Estes Kefauver | democrat vp for election of '56 | 41 | |
| 365888333 | Brown v Board of ed 1953 | topeka, kansas Thurgood Marshall is lawyer ends segregation in education | 42 | |
| 365888334 | southern manifesto | signed by south saying they didn't agree with desegregating schools | 43 | |
| 365888335 | Orval Faubus | gov of Little Rock, Arkansas that closed down schools so he wouldn't have to integrate | 44 | |
| 365888336 | SCLC | protest jim crow w/ demonstrations, sit ins, and boycotts | 45 | |
| 365888337 | SNCC | student non violent coordinating committee | 46 | |
| 365888338 | amendment 23 | gives DC 3 electoral college votes in a presidential election | 47 | |
| 365888339 | civil rights act 1957 | gave attorney general power to investigate charges that blacks were being denied the right to vote | 48 | |
| 365888340 | The Robe | first movie in widescreen | 49 | |
| 365888341 | Board Code of Hollywood | approved movies ended in 1964 | 50 | |
| 365888342 | MPAA | rates movies | 51 | |
| 365888343 | Abraham Levitt | father of development system | 52 | |
| 365888344 | Wilt Chamberlan | best NBA player | 53 | |
| 365888345 | Micky Montal | best MLB player | 54 | |
| 365888346 | 3rd Great Awakening | 1940s-1950s more religious interest | 55 | |
| 365888347 | Billy Graham | preacher who did religious revivals | 56 | |
| 365888348 | Fulton Sheen | catholic priest on tv | 57 | |
| 365888349 | the power of positive thinking | book urging people to be happier | 58 |
