| A | B |
|---|
| Sputnik | 1st satellite in space-Russian |
| Warsaw Pact | gave Stalin power over satellite countries in Eastern Europe |
| McCarthyism | "witch-hunt" looking for communist in USA |
| National Interstate Highway System | Federal funds used to builod roads to link major cities and encourage mobilization. |
| Marshall Plan | Gave money to countries to rebuild. |
| Containment policy | To stop the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | Pledge US support to stop communist expansion in Europe. |
| Berlin Airlift | Dropped supplies into Germany |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | US would bak any European country against communism. |
| Korean War conflict | Fight to keep S. Korea free |
| United Nations | Maintain world peace. US and USSR spread influence. |
| CIA | Spies used to gather information. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NATO | Military support ready to support anyone attacked. |
| Cold War | USSR and US spread their ideas. Space race, Espionage... |
| Suez Canal | Great Britain and US help to build in Egypt. |
| Suez Canal Fight | Israel not allokwed to use canal. |
| Nuclear Arms Race | Soviets & US kept building bigger bombs. |
| Fair Deal | extension of FDR's New Deal |
| Surburban growth | people leaving cities to live |
| Hollywood 10 | called to testify to prove not communist. |
| HUAC | House Un-American Committee |
| HUAC | Ck. to see if communist were in government. |
| Satellite Nations | Countries USSR took over for buffer zone |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill-W. Europe and E. Europe divided |
| West Germany | US, France, Great Britain gave land after WWII |
| Chinese Civil War | Communist Chaing Kai Shek fought Zedong. |
| Zedong | Won Chinese Civil War |
| GI Bill of Rights | Low interest home loans, $ for school, Unemployment |
| Suburbs | Assembly line homes to help with shortage of housing |
| Unemployment | High due to war ending |
| Truman, President | "The buck stops here" |
| Dixiecrats | Southern Democrates oppossed Truman |
| Fair Deal | Compulsory health insurance and crop subsidy |
| Eisenhower | Presiden-middle of the road approach |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Integrated public schools |
| Conglomerates | Lg. company that owns many smaller companies. |
| Franchise | a company that offers similar products in several locations |
| McDonalds, Subway, Sears | Franchises |
| Baby Boom | Population explosion after WWI |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | Developed vaccine for polio |
| Interstate Highway System | Created highways which encouraged suburbs and growth |
| Consumerism | buying goods equated with success. |
| Buy Now, Pay Late | Installment payment plans, loans |
| Mass Media | Television for entertainment and information |
| Federal Communications Commission | Regulates and Licenses TV |
| Beat Movement | "Beatniks" nonconformist, music, drugs |
| Rock 'n' Roll | Elvis, Chuck Berry, blacks and whites both |
| Jazz | Improvisation of music, all races |
| Urban Poor | Those left in the cities after "white flight" |
| White Flight | Move out of cities to suburbs |
| Inner Cities | Whites in suburbs didn't pay taxes to cities anymore |
| Urban Renewal | prompted National Housing Act |
| National Housing Act | Provide decent housing for every American. |
| Housing and Urban Development | HUD formed to improve inner cities |
| John Foster Dulles | Sec. of State Anti Communist |
| Brinkmanship | Willingness to go to the edge of war with threats of force. |
| President Eisenhower | Cold War - brinkmanship |
| Central Intelligence Agency | Spy for the US |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist Rule of Soviet Union |
| Alger Hiss | Communist Spy |
| The Rosenbergs | activist with Amerian Communist Party |
| Korean War | Between North & South Korea |
| 38th Parallel | latitude that divided Korea N & S |
| North Korea | Soviet controlled-communist |
| South Korea | US occupied but pulled back |
| Kim II Sung | Leader of North Korea |
| MacArthur | US general in S. Korea |
| Chinese & Korea | Chinese wanted N.Korea as a buffer zone |
| US v. USSR | Coldwar communist v. democracy |
| United Nations | Peacekeeping body 50 countries joined. |
| Cold War | Spies, arms race, arguments but no troops involved. |
| Truman Administration-1 | 1. Dropped the bomb |
| Truman-2 | 2. Banned discrimination in the military |
| Truman-3 | Fair Deal |
| Truman-4 | Stood against strikers |
| Eisenhower-1 | Middle of the Road approach |
| Eisenhower - 2 | Armistice signed by Korea |
| Eisenhower -3 | Sent Aid to Vietnam |
| Eisenhower - 4 | Supported Civil Rights |
