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American pageant vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Popular name for the Servicemen's Readjusment Act, which provided assistance to former soldiers. | GI bill of rights. |
| Shorthand name for the southern and western regions of the U.S that experienced the highest rates of growth after World War II. | Sunbelt . |
| New York suburb where postwar builders pioneered the techniques of mass home construction. | Levittown. |
| Term for the dramatic rise in the U.S births that began immediately after World Waar II. | baby boom. |
| Big Three wartime conference that later became the focus of charges the Roosevelt had''sold out'' Easter Europe to the soviet communists. | Yalta. |
| The extended post-World War II confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that stopped just short of a shooting war. | Cold War. |
| Meeting of Western Allies during World War II that established the economic structures to promote recovery and enhance FDR's vision of an ''open world''. | Bretton Woods. |
| New international organization that expierenced some early successes in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control. | NATO |
| Term for the barrier that Stalin erected to block off Soviet-dominated nations of Eastern Europe from the west. | iron curtain. |
| American-sponsored effort that provided funds for the economic relief and recovery of Western Europe. | Marshall Plan. |
| The new anti-Soviet organization of Western nations that ended the long-time American tradition of not joining permanent military alliances. | United Nations. |
| Jiang Jieshi's pro-American forces, which lost to Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's communists in 1949. | Nationalists. |
| Key U.S government memorandum that militarized American foreign policy and indicated national faith in the economy's capacity to sustain large military expenditures . | NSC-68 |
| U.S House of Representatives committee that took the lead in the investigating alleged procommunist agents such as Alger Hiss. | House Un-American Activities Committee. |
| The dividing line between North and South Korea, across which the fighting between communists and United Nations ebbed and flowed during the Korean War. | 38th Parallel. |
| Top Nazi official who committed suicide after being convicted in war-crimes trials. | Herman Goerring |
| Physician who provided advice on child rearing to babyboomers' parents after World War II. | Benjamin Spock |
| Young California congressman whose investigation of Alger Hiss spurred fears of communist influence in America. | Dick Nixon |
| Oil-rich Middle Eastern nation that became an early focal point of Soviet-American conflict. | Iran |
| Originator of a massive program for the economic relief and recovery of devastated Europe. | George C. Marshall |
| American military commander in Korea fired by President Harry Truman. | General Douglas MacArthur |
| Former vice-president of the United States whose 1948 campaign as a pro-Soviet liberal split the Democratic party. | Henry Wallace |
| Site of a series of controversial war-crimes trials that led to the execution of twelve Nazi leaders. | Nuremberg |
| Wisconson senator whose charges of communist infiltration of the U.S. government deepened the anti-red atmosphere of the early 1950s. | Joseph McCarthy |
| Nation that was effectively converted from dictastorship to democracy by the strong leadership of General Douglas MacArthur. | Japan |
| The tough leader whose violation of agreements in Eastern Europe and Germany helped launch the Cold War. | Stalin |
| Southern European nation whose threatened fall to communism in 1947 precipitated the Truman Doctrine. | Greece. Turkey too. |
| Territory deep inside the Soviet zone of Germany that was itself divided into four zones of occupation. | Berlin |
| Southern segregationist who led "Dixiecrat" predidential campaign against Truman in 1948. | Strom Thurmond |
| Brilliant U.S. specialist on the Soviet Union and originator of the theory that U.S. policy should be to "contain" the Soviet Union". | George F. Kennan |
| Caused an era of inprecendented growth in American prosperity from 1950 to 1970. | Cheap energy, military spending, and rising productivity. |
| Drew millions of white and black Americans to the Sunbelt after World War II. | Job opportunities, warm climates, and improved race relations. |
| Led to the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine and hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for anticommunist governments. | British withdrawal from communist-threatened Greece. |
| Led to organization of the permanent NATO alliance. | The threat of Soviet invation or U.S. isolationist withdrawal from Europe. |
| Caused the rise of big commercial agribusiness ans spelled the near-disappearance of the traditional family farm. | The mechanization and consolidation of the family farm |
| Aroused Republican charges that Democrats Truman and Acheson had "lost China". | Zedong's overthrow of Kaishek |
| Broke Soviet ground blockade and established American determination to resist further Soviet Advance. | US airlift to West Berlin |
| Left America's cities heavily populated by racial minorities. | White flight to the suburbs |
| Led to the firm establishment of Japanese democracy and the beginnings of a great Japanese economic advance. | MacArthur's reform of rule-oriented Japan |
| Caused much school-building in the 1950s, a "youth culture" in the 1960s, and a growing concern about "aging" in the 1980s. | Post WWII baby boom |
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