AP Notes, Outlines, Study Guides, Vocabulary, Practice Exams and more!

unit 13 chapter 37-38

Terms : Hide Images
154289246Postdam ConfrenceMeeting of Atlee, Truman, and Stalin in Berlin on May 1945 Germany was divided into 4 zones
154289247Truman Doctrine1947 Truman asked Congress for $400 to support Greeece and Turkey and show that U.S. supports Anti-Communistic countries
154289248NATOMilitary defence allianc with U.S., Canada, And 10 western European countries to block communism
154289249General Assemblythe supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations
154289250National Security Councila committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security
154289251Chiang Kai-Sheknationalist leader of China (1887-1975)
154289252NSCNational Security Council
154289253Whittaker ChambersTIME 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.
154289254Julius and Ethel RosenbergArrested 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.
154289255Adlai StevensonDemocratic 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".
154289256Beatniksfad 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.
154289257Allen GinsbergUnited States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997)
154289258Martin Luther King jr.AfricanAmerican civil rights leader
154289259sputnikThe world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.
154289260John Foster DullesAs Secretary of State. he viewed the struggle against Communism as a classic conflict between good and evil. Believed in containment and the Eisenhower doctrine.
154289261Security councila permanent council of the United Nations
154289263G.I. Bill of RightsLaw Passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education
154289265George F. KennanBelieved the US should resist Soviet attempts to expand power and influence. "the father of containment"
154289267Marshall Plana United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
154289269Berlin AirliftAirlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
154289271Taft-Hartley ActA United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
154289273Dixiecrat PartyThe "States Rights Party"-seperated from the Democratic party to oppose desegregation-1948
154289275Fair DealTruman's extension of the New Deal that increased min wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing
154289277Mao ZedongCommunist Leader of China
154289279HUACThe House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda,
154289280Alger HissA former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.
154289281Joseph McCarthyUnited States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
154289282Billy GrahamUnited States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist . First to Preach over Television
154289283Jack KerouacUnited States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)
154289284Rosa ParksUnited 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)
154289285Interstate and Defense Highway Actauthorized interstate highway to be built
154289286National Defence Education Actfederal law that appropriated money to improve education in science, math and foriegn languages
154289287"containment"the act of containing something or someone

Need Help?

We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.

For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.

If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.

Need Notes?

While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!