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| NATO | An alliance declaring that an armed attack on any of the members would be considered an attack on them all. Leads to a Soviet alliance. |
| Korean War | Undeclared war justified as a police action by Truman; does not change the situation but it expands the power of the president and begins American world policing |
| Election of 1952 | Eisenhower, a war hero that wanted a balance between the parties is elected. He wins 55% of the popular vote demonstrating that Americans wanted a change in policy. |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | Supreme court case that calls for immediate integration of schools. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | First organized nonviolent protest; Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a leader in the civil rights movement. |
| Sputnik launched | Soviets reach space before the United States decreasing American confidence. |
| NASA Founded | United States begins the space race to send a man to space with this action. |
| Shelly v. Kraemer | Truman orders an amicus curiae to outlaw racial segregation in housing. |
| Congressional Elections of 1946 | Republicans take control of Congress during the 1946 Congressional elections. Demonstrates dislike of the Democratic Truman administration. |
| GI Bill | Provided economic stability for veterans. Many veterans used this after WWII. |
| Fair Deal | Truman’s extension of the New Deal that paid special attention to civil rights. |
| New Look | Eisenhower administration plan to cut defense expenditures. |
| Marshall Plan | Plan that called for seventeen billion dollars to be given to non-communist European Countries; also known as the European Recovery Program (ERP). |
| Truman Doctrine | “It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” |
| McCarthyism | Fear of communism. |
| Election of 1948 | Truman is re-elected with almost 50% of the popular vote. Nobody expected this result. |
| 1945 | This is the year that WWII ended and Truman succeeded Roosevelt to the presidency. |
| Geneva Summit Meeting | Eisenhower met with Krushchev and the heads of the British and French governments but little was accomplished. (1955) |
| 1959 | This is the year that Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states. |
| I Like Ike | Eisenhower's famous campaign slogan. |
| Election of 1956 | Eisenhower re-elected. |
| Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas | Eisenhower orderd Federal troops to force integration here. |
| Containment | Policy used to limit the spread of Communism. |
| Iron Curtain | Refered to the area of communist control by the Soviet Union. |
| Cold War | Rivalry between US and Soviet after WWII. |
| Taft-Hartley Act | Passed by the newly Rpublican controlled Congress. Reversed legislation passed under the Roosevelt administration. |
