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| Taft Hartley Act | Hated by Unions. This act outlawed all "closed" or all union shops. |
| GI Bill of Rights | Paid college tuition for any WWII veteran who wanted to go to college. |
| Sunbelt | Portion of the US that grew rapidly in population creating new political bases and using up more federal funds. |
| Baby Boom | A baby born every 7 seconds in America. Reached it's peak by the late 1950's. |
| Cold War | Term used to describe always tense sometimes hostile relations between the US and the Soviet Union. Cold War origins can be found in the disagreement after WWII of what to do about Eastern Europe. |
| United Nations | Organized after WWII, the peace keeping body has not always been successful. |
| Nuremberg Trials | Organized after WWII to prosecute Nazi war criminals for "crimes against humanity", i.e. the Holocaust. |
| Berlin Crisis | Stalin blockaded the city of Berlin. America response was a ongoing airlift of supplies until Stalin gave up. |
| Containment Doctrine | Origniated with George F. Kennan. This doctrine advised that the US should seek out ways to stop communism from spreading any further in the world. |
| Truman Doctrine | Formal name given to the containment doctrine and supported US funds and help to any country threatened by communist aggression. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. An alliance between America and allies to guard against Communist aggression. |
| Warsaw Pact | Stalin's answer to NATO. Communist allied nations. |
| Point Four program | US aid to underdeveloped nations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. |
| Israel | Created by the UN in 1948. American support for Israel has been costly and risked US access to Middler Eastern Oil supplies. |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader in China. Defeats the Chinese nationalists that the US supported. |
| Jiang Jeshi | Nationalist leader in China who flees to Taiwan after losing a Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong. |
| Korean War | One of the Cold War's hot spots. American troops sent there in the 1950's to fight communist aggression. Country split in half at the 38th parallel. |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | Virulent anti-communist who led the Second Red Scare or communist hunt in America. |
| HUAC | House of UnAmerican Activities Committee. Helped to look for communists in America. |
| Hollywood Ten | Targeted by HUAC, these individuals were accused of communist loyalities and using their jobs in Hollywood to make communist propaganda in movies. |
| Civil Rights movement | Organized to end Jim Crow laws and establish true freedom for black Americans. Used boycotts, legal cases, mobilization of black churches, and the nonviolent tactics of Ghandi. |
| Brown v. The Board of Education | Supreme Court Case that finally overturns "separate but equal" in the education. Schools thereafter would by law be integrated. Not happily accepted in some places and had to be enforced by the military. |
| Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee | Organized after the "sit in" movement of young Southern Blacks took hold. |
| " New Look" | Eisenhower foreign policy that called for freedom of the skies over BOTH the US and the Soviet Union. A foreing policy that would rely on nuclear weapons and air power rather than army and the navy strength. |
| Hungary | Satellite nation that attempted to revolt against the Soviet Union. Embarassing event for the US since Eisenhower decided to do nothing to help the struggling nation. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of the nationalistic movement in Vietnam and man who embraced communism leading to the sending of American soliders over to Vietnam in the 1960's and 1970's. |
| Shah Mohammed REza Pahlevi | Man installed as Iranian Shah (king) with the help of a US drive CIA coup. Not liked by his own people. |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | Foreign policy that promised US economic and military aid to nations in the Middle East. |
| Sputnik | Soviet satellite (FIRST EVER) launched into space. Scared America into redirecting money into America education in the areas of science and language development. |
| U-2 Incident | American pilot Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers admits to spying and is thrown into Soviet prison. The incident destorys any hopes at the Paris summit conference of lessening hostilities between the US and Soviet Union. |
| Latin American: US foreign policy | Support brutal dictators as long as they said they were fighting communism, continue to meddle in "little sisters" affairs, give lots of money to Europe but little to L.A., allow the CIA to force a coup in Guatemala. |
| Election 1960 | John F. Kennedy v. Richard Nixon. The widespread use of television to campaign was a FIRST and had a huge impact on the election. |
