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UShist 9.1
Quiz practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Richard Nixon | Congressman member of HUAC; became president in the late 60's. |
| Harry S. Truman | President who desegregated the military and began the containment policy. |
| Communism | Truman Doctrine promised to aid any country threatened by this: |
| Fair Deal | Truman's domestic program |
| Cold War | Rivalry between the two world superpowers after WWII. |
| inflation | when prices rise |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. funded post-WWII economic recovery program for western Europe. |
| Containment | Policy with a main goal of preventing the spread of communism. |
| William Levitt | used assembly-line techniques to mass-produce houses. |
| Civil Rights | Truman created this commission to respond to racial tensions. |
| Berlin Airlift | Was launched to save the city when Soviets blockaded it. |
| Women | returned to jobs in more traditional fields at the end of WWII. |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance of the Soviet Union and other communist Eastern European countries. |
| Winston Churchill | invented the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the Cold War |