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| Intended to promote peace, 50 representatives met in San Franscisco to establish the UN | ||
| -spead democracy -rebuild europe (gain allies) -reunite germany -no reparations | ||
| -spread communism -controle eastern Europe (balane US influence) -devide germany -Pay reparations | ||
| When we gave money to Greece and Turkey because the us " will help anyone, anywhere, who is fighting for democracy" | ||
| Revieved European hopes. 16 countries recieved 13 billion, because of the terrible condictions they were living in | ||
| prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries. | ||
| came to stand for the devison in Europe (Western and communist Eastern) | ||
| was started to fly food ans upplies into west berlin-West berlin survived because of the airlift | ||
| line of latitude that separated North and South Korea | ||
| When north Korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea (June 25, 1950) | ||
| When Macather launched a counter attack on the north with heavy artillery in a surprise, landing behined enemy lines. | ||
| There was tension between the two because Macarthur wanted to take on chine, but truman didn't allow it. Macarthur was critisizing truman, so truman had him fired. | ||
| they backed up north korea, because they would not "let the americans come to the border". many chinese troops joined the war | ||
| Many people at home were scared of being bombed by the soviets | ||
| House un-American Activites comitte: began to investigate communist influence in th emovie industry | ||
| Joeseph McCarthy: an anti-comunist senator---when he accused suspected communists | ||
| the practicing of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any agression | ||
| dictator of the Soviet Union, turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state | ||
| Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | ||
| Communist ruler of northern China | ||
| Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States | ||
| anti-communist activist , a republican from Wesconsin | ||
| the man who gained power after Stalin's death | ||
| passed in 1944, it encouraged veterans to get an education, and garenteed unemployment benifets | ||
| residential communities surrounding cities, which many of the white people moved to inorder to escape the city life | ||
| rising devorce rates, and many women had to return to their "housewife" positon as their husbands returned from the war | ||
| he supported civil rights, and wanted equality amoung all human beings, proposed a anti lynching law, and abolition of the poll tax, which congress refused to pass | ||
| 1st black to play major leauge base ball(for the brooklyn Dodgers) | ||
| southern democrats, who didn't like truman, and started their own party in wich they nomonated J. storom Thurmond for President | ||
| The democratic party was still split by the dixiecrats, but truman pused with thing like "give 'em hell harry" and wone the election in a political upset | ||
| extension of roosevelt's new deal, it included proposals for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance and system to provide a steady income for farmers. | ||
| "we like ike!" In this election, he took the middle road...but he critisized the power of the federal gov. | ||
| Eisenhower's policy- "Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings." (middle road course) | ||
| A FRANCHISE that represents the 50's: a company that offers simalar products or services many locations | ||
| the 40's through the 50's, the birthrate was in the US soared, with an infant born every seven second | ||
| The role of the home maker and the mother was glorified by magizines, movies, and tv programs | ||
| the designing of products to wear our or to become outdated quickly so that people will feel a need to replace their possesions frequently | ||
| encouraged even mors spending with ads everywhere | ||
| golden age of TV entertainment, with many popular programs , it was a big place for ads | ||
| means of communication that reach large audiences | ||
| expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers...Followers were BEATNIKS, who shought a higher consciousness through zen buddhism, music, and drugs | ||
| big music in the 50's: and music thats both black and white, which teenagers related to | ||
| unofficial "king of rock n roll" a very popular figure in the 50's | ||
| African-American music had inspired the birth of rock in roll with many great prefomers. but still things were broadcasted on seperates stations | ||
| the booming economy made it possible for this group to stay in school. they really realated to rock n roll music | ||
| working and middle-class white people move away from inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs | ||
| the rearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown innercity neighborhoods | ||
| US gov's plan to ive up responsibility for native american tribes by eliminating federal economic support, disconting the reservation system, and reditrubuting tribal lands | ||
| governor of SC, leader of the Dixiecrats, ran for president under State's Rights Party in 1948 | ||
| United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955) | ||
| An African-American rock 'n' roll musician and composer, who influenced many musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, including the Beatles and Bob Dyan. | ||
| A Mexican-American who was killed seving american at war, and his family was refused funeral services | ||
| "hired hands": mexicans who were allowed into America to harvest crops on a short term basis | ||
| The Democratic nominee, Kenedy, narrowly beat Richard Nixon, which some people were upset about because of how young he was, and his catholic views | ||
| Kennedy and Nixon had the first debate over the tv, in which 70 million people viewed, kennedy had good sucess of the debate | ||
| He was a moderate democrat, and an expirienced polotition, which he hoped would gain him votes in th election of 1960 | ||
| The kenedy family was like american royalty | ||
| failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs. | ||
| a Cuban communist dictator | ||
| The Soviet Union was secretly building nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, which could have been used for a sneak-attack on the U.S. The U.S. blockaded Cuba until the U.S.S.R. agreed to dismantle the missile silos. | ||
| a concrete wall topped with barpbed wire that severed the city in two | ||
| Kennedy set out to transform his broad vision of progress into what he called the ___________ | ||
| a program of volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America | ||
| a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union, in which the soviets beat us in orbit but we beet them to the moon by the end of the decade | ||
| A foreign aid program which offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American Countries. | ||
| place and date of Kennedy's assassination | ||
| investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own (1963) | ||
| succeeded the presidency of JFK, and his ambition and drive. | ||
| LBJ beat Republican Barry Goldwater in a landslade due to his early sucess as president | ||
| provided hospital insurance with low-cost medical insurance for almost every american age 65 or older | ||
| extended health insurance to welfare recipeints | ||
| countries dominated by the soviet union |
