| A | B |
|---|
| Betty Friedan | American writer and feminist; wrote the Feminist Mystique; President of NOW; fought for women to have equal rights to men |
| Media Portrayal of media | the happy housewife and mother |
| Great Migration | movement of African Americans out of the south to the north and big cities |
| White flight | Movements of whites out of the city into the suburbs |
| Suburbia | There is where the happy housewife lives |
| MacArthur | WWII Pacific commander; military governor of Japan after WWII; sent to Korea after |
| Containment | stop the spread of communism |
| Armistice | Agreement to stop war; in Korea- the country was divided into two at the 38th parallel |
| Truman Doctrine | Us supported Greece and Turkey with money and military aid to prevent them from becoming Communist |
| Marshall Plan | Economic program to contain communism by helping European nations after WWII |
| NATO | Alliance to protect countries from communist attackers and help Europe be able to buy more goods |
| Berlin Airlift | During the communist blockade of West Berlin, British and US planes flew supplies and dropped them off |
| Cause of Korean War | We wanted to contain communism from spreading to South Korea |
| Communism | Government controls the economy |
| Capitalism | buyers and sellers control the economy |
| Cold War | Conflict between capitalist US and communist soviet union; avoided much direct war by threatening each other with nuclear bombs |
| Effect of Korean War | Contained communism from spreading to South Korea |
| Eisenhower | WWII commander of the allied forces at D-Day; became president in 1952 |
| Domino Theory | Idea that if one country fell, many would fall to communism |
| Berlin Wall | 1961- Soviets blocked flow of resources from East to West Berlin; the wall was a symbol of the Cold War until it was taken down in 1989 |
| GI Bill | Provided college or vocational training for returning vets from WWII |
| prosperity | raised standard of living for a country because people have more money |
| Baby boom | large number of babies born between 1946-1964 |
| Interstate Highway Act | largest public works project in history; connected the US; done for fear of nuclear war |
| suburbs | homes mass produced outside of the city |
| Levittown | Considered a place of the American dream; 150 houses produced per week; helped grow the suburbs |
| consumerism | people buying more personal goods |
| Beat generation | offered a dissenting voice to the "suburban" life; followers used poetry, music, Buddhism, and sometimes drugs to "find understanding" |
| Polio vaccine | 1954- Salk created the vaccine to end the disease of polio |
| In God We Trust | 1956- official motto of the US, found on currency |
| Rock n Roll | musical movement that clashed with the tidy idea of suburban life; showed the rebellion of youth |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962- Soviets put missiles in Cuba, US made a barricade of ships (naval blockade), Soviets retreated, STAND OFF! |
| Venona papers | secret joint project between intelligence of US and UK to decode Soviet ciphers to reveal Americans invovled in espionage |
| Sputnik | 1st artificial satellite; launched by Soviet Union; started the space race |
| Economic impact of the Cold War | Increased research, development, government spending, spending on national security, and spending on the space race |
| National Defense Education Act | Response to Sputnik and led to increased spending on math and science |
| Arms race | race between US and Soviet Union to build best weapons and strongest military; led to bomb shelters and fear of nuclear disaster |
| Space Race | Began when Soviet Union launched Sputnik; led to the development of NASA, more funding for math and science, and US striving for technological superiority |
| McCarthyism | Extreme fear of communism; named after Senator McCarthy who worked to find Communists but often did so in an unethical way |
| HUAC | Investigative committee that inquired about subversive acts; most famous for investigating Alger Hiss and blacklisting actors |
