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| GI Bill | 1944 a powerful support during the transition of 15 million veterans to a peacetime economy. veterans were able to continue their education at government expense. |
| Employment Act of 1946 | 1946 created council of economic advisors. |
| McCarran Internal Security Act | 1950 unlawful to support totalitarian government. restricted employment and travel to communist places. authorized detention camps for subversives. |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 implemented this containment policy in response to 1. communist-led uprising against the government in greece. 2. soviet demands for some control of Turkey's dardanelles. Truman as congress for $400 million in economic and military aid to assist the "free people" of Greece and Turkey against "totalitarian" regimes. gained bipartisan support from republicans and democrats in congress. |
| Marshall Plan | 1947 George marshall outlined an extensive program of us economic aid to help the nations of europe revive their economies and strengthen democratic governments. $17 billion european recovery program. |
| Taft-Hartley Act | 1947 probusiness. vetoed the measure as a "slave-labor" bill, but congress overrode his veto. |
| John Foster Dulles | 1956 secretary of state. if us pushed communism powers to brink of war, soviets would back down because of american nuclear superiority. "brinksmanship". |
| Ho Chi Minh | communist leader. |
| Geneva Conference | 1954france agred to give up indochina at this conference. vietnam was divided. |
| Suez Canal Crisis | 1956 egypt asked us for funds to build a canal. us refused. egypt then asked soviet union. soviets agreed. this would hurt europe's oil supply. britain and france did a surprise attack against egypt and retookt he canal. eisenhower condemned the invasion of egypt angry at britain and france. after crisis, britain and france would never agin play the role of major powers in world affairs. |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | 1957 US pledged economic and military aid to middle eastern country threatened by communism. |
| Beatniks | 1950s advocated spontaneity, drugs, and rebellion. |
| Alliance for progress | 1961 promoted land reform and economic development in latin america. |
| Trade Expansion Act | 1962 authorized tariff reductions with european economic community. |
| Bay of Pigs Invation | 1961 cia use cuban exiles to overthrow fidel castro's regime in cuba. failed uprising. |
| Berlin Wall | 1961 east germans built a wall around west berlin. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 kennedy in response to russians building missiles in cuba to fire at us. US set up naval blockade of cuba until weapons were removed. khrushchev agreed to remove missiles if kennedy pledged not to invade cuba. |
| Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | 1963 100 nations agreed to sign this to end testing nuclear weapons in atmosphere. |
| Lyndon Johnson | 1965 Great Society. social reforms. expanded versions of kennedy's civil rights bill and proposal for an income tax cut. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 1964 segregation illegal in all public facilities. set equal employment opportunity commission |
| 24th amendment | 1964 abolished collecting poll tax |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 ended literacy tests and provided federal registration areas blacks were kept from voting. |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | 1964 North Vietnmaese gunboats fired US warships. resolution gave the president a black check to take all necessary measures to protect us interests in vietnam. |
| Tet Offensive | Jan. 1968 vietcong launched a surprise attack on almost every american base in south vietnam. |
