154289246 | Postdam Confrence | Meeting of Atlee, Truman, and Stalin in Berlin on May 1945 Germany was divided into 4 zones | |
154289247 | Truman Doctrine | 1947 Truman asked Congress for $400 to support Greeece and Turkey and show that U.S. supports Anti-Communistic countries | |
154289248 | NATO | Military defence allianc with U.S., Canada, And 10 western European countries to block communism | |
154289249 | General Assembly | the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations | |
154289250 | National Security Council | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security | |
154289251 | Chiang Kai-Shek | nationalist leader of China (1887-1975) | |
154289252 | NSC | National Security Council | |
154289253 | Whittaker Chambers | TIME magazine editor and former communist. Confessed to spying for the Soviet Union during the 1930's. Named fellow spies, some of them in Roosevelt's cabinet. | |
154289254 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. | |
154289255 | Adlai Stevenson | Democratic nominee in the elections of 1952 and 1956. Both times he was defeated by the republican candidate (Eisenhower). During the campaigns, Stevenson criticised McCarthy and other republicans calling them "Fear mongers". | |
154289256 | Beatniks | fad from the 1950`s they are a thing related to a sock hop. At a sock hop a person would take off their shoes and dance. | |
154289257 | Allen Ginsberg | United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997) | |
154289258 | Martin Luther King jr. | AfricanAmerican civil rights leader | |
154289259 | sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. | |
154289260 | John Foster Dulles | As Secretary of State. he viewed the struggle against Communism as a classic conflict between good and evil. Believed in containment and the Eisenhower doctrine. | |
154289261 | Security council | a permanent council of the United Nations | |
154289263 | G.I. Bill of Rights | Law Passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education | |
154289265 | George F. Kennan | Believed the US should resist Soviet attempts to expand power and influence. "the father of containment" | |
154289267 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | |
154289269 | Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. | |
154289271 | Taft-Hartley Act | A United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. | |
154289273 | Dixiecrat Party | The "States Rights Party"-seperated from the Democratic party to oppose desegregation-1948 | |
154289275 | Fair Deal | Truman's extension of the New Deal that increased min wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing | |
154289277 | Mao Zedong | Communist Leader of China | |
154289279 | HUAC | The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda, | |
154289280 | Alger Hiss | A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon. | |
154289281 | Joseph McCarthy | United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957) | |
154289282 | Billy Graham | United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist . First to Preach over Television | |
154289283 | Jack Kerouac | United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) | |
154289284 | Rosa Parks | United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913) | |
154289285 | Interstate and Defense Highway Act | authorized interstate highway to be built | |
154289286 | National Defence Education Act | federal law that appropriated money to improve education in science, math and foriegn languages | |
154289287 | "containment" | the act of containing something or someone |
unit 13 chapter 37-38
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