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Unit 8--Part 1
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| provided for college education, cheap loans, VA hospitals, and preferential job treatment for returning veterans of WWII | Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (GI Bill) |
| term for demographic increase from 1946-1964 | “Baby Boom” |
| mass produced housing community in Long Island, NY; exemplified growth of suburbs | Levittown |
| term for movement of white Americans to the suburbs after WWII | "white flight" |
| term to describe southern portion of US that saw demographic growth in the post-WWII years | "Sun Belt" |
| Period of tension between the US and Soviet Union (USSR) that lasted from 1945-1991 | Cold War |
| wrote the "Long Telegram" that first outlined containment | George Kennan |
| America's post-WWII foreign policy; sought to keep communism where it was and not let it spread | Containment |
| outlined the policy of containment; 1st announced in response to Greek Civil War | Truman Doctrine |
| referred to fortified border that USSR erected to separate eastern European satellite countries (Eastern bloc) from western Europe | Iron Curtain |
| Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade; kept West Berlin supplied by air | Berlin Airlift |
| Economic aid program to re-build European economies after WWII: gave $12 billion to European countries that wanted it | Marshall Plan |
| western military alliance meant to defend all members from attack | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| eastern military alliance meant to defend all communist countries from attack | Warsaw Pact |
| fear that there was communist infiltration at all levels of US govt in early 1950s | Second Red Scare |
| claimed US government was infiltrated by communists including Secretary of State Dean Acheson and General George Marshall (Marshall Plan) | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| Committee in House of Representatives that was meant to expose communists in society, gov’t, entertainment industry | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
| screenwriters, producers, directors who were accused of communism by HUAC; started "blacklisting" in entertainment industry | Hollywood Ten |
| American couple accused of giving atomic secrets to Russians in 1950; executed | Rosenbergs |
| refers to “thawing” of Cold War tensions under Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger | detente |
| when people measure themselves against images—often unrealistic-- created by mass media | other directed society |
| created the National Organization of Women and wrote The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan |
| they rebelled against conformity and materialism in their literature | The Beats |
| one of the first homosexual rights organizations | Mattachine Society |
| called for the building of the current federal road system | Interstate Highway Act |
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