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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What 2 "wonder drugs" helped to combat infections, which resulted in fewer battlefield deaths during WWII? | Penicillin and streptomycin |
| What were 2 childhood diseases that had been ended by vaccines by 1956? | Whooping cough and measles |
| List two (2) consumer goods that had been created and manufactured in 1945 that helped improve American's quality of life. | Freezers and dishwashers |
| What did "Life" magazine report (in 1955) was allowing consumers to buy products without having to wait to save money to buy them? | “Revolution in consumer purchasing where instead of saving for years to afford major purchases, customers buy on credit and enjoy the goods while they pay for them” |
| When did the USSR first successfully test its own atomic bomb? | 1949 |
| When and where did the U.S. first successfully test a hydrogen bomb? | November 1,1952, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. |
| What was one reason that "the divorce rate skyrocketed in the late 1940's"? | Married couples found it difficult to adjust to be away from each other for so long. |
| What does the term "G.I. Bill of Rights" mean/refer to? | Legislation in June 1944 that eased the return of veterans into American society by providing educational and employment benefits. |
| What does the term "Baby Boomers" mean/refer to? | The name given to the generation of hilden born to the family of returning WWII veterans between 1945 and 1960. |
| What does the term "Levittowns" mean/refer to? | The largest private post war housing project in American history. |
| What were 2 ways that returning WWII veterans and their spouses dealt with the housing shortage that followed shortly after the war ended? | They lived in army Quonset huts or other temporary buildings. |
| Explain how "the growth of suburbs created even more ethnic segregation" | African Americans, Latinos, and Aisans were excluded from most suburban developments. Levittown specifically excluded people of color from its subdivision. |
| List 2 things that spurred a 2nd Great Migration that followed WWII. | The pull of Northern industrial jobs and the push of Southern segregation and violence. |
| Explain how the Federal Housing Authority contributed to the increase of racially segregated neighborhoods following WWII. | Its handbook said “don’t give mortgages to black families in white neighborhoods.” |
| What does the term "bracero" mean/refer to? | Helping hands in Spanish |
| What is the purpose of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? | To keep exchange rates between different currencies so people could buy and sell in different countries without fear of values fluctuating, to provide loans to a nation that was having trouble balancing payments, and to provide assistance to banks. |
| What does the term "United Nations" mean/ refer to? | An international organization launched at the end of WWII with leadership from the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and China. |
| Which four (4) nations were known as the "four policemen" in 1944? | United States, Britain, Soviet Union, and China. |
| When was the U.N. Charter approved? | June 25, 1945 |
| What does the term "Cold War" mean/refer to? | The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989. |
| How did Joseph Stalin respond "immediately after the Truman - Molotov meeting"? | Stalin asserted Communist control over the new governments of Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. |
| What does the term "containment" mean/refer to (where U.S. - Soviet relations are concerned)? | The policy of resisting further expansion of the Soviet bloc through diplomacy and, if necessary, military action, developed in 1947-1948. |
| What does the term "Iron Curtain" mean/ refer to? | A phrase coined by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in 1946 when describing the post-WWII division of Europe into two hostile segments |
| What was the "Truman Doctrine"? | President Harry Truman’s statement in 1947 that the U.S. should assist other nations that were facing external Communist pressure or internal revolution |
| What was the "Marshall Plan"? | The European Recovery Program, which provided U.S. economic assistance to European nations in large part to keep them out of the Soviet Union Sphere of influence. |
| What was the "Berlin Airlift"? | In 1948 and 1949, food and supplies delivered by air into Berlin to keep the city attached to Western Europe. |
| What was the Warsaw Pact? | A military alliance in Eastern Europe specifically designed to counter NATO with the same guarantees of mutual assistance for its members. |
| What 2 things "sped the growth of Cold War sentiment" in 1949? What 2 things "sped the growth of Cold War sentiment" in 1949? | The Russians exploded their own atomic bomb, and the gov. of the U.S. wartime ally Chiang Kai-shek was defeated by Chinese Communists. |
| Who was Alger Hiss and what is his relationship to the Cold War? | A former State Department official who had been with FDR at Yalta, who helped organize the United Nations. He was accused of passing state secrets to the Soviets, was eventually convicted of lying under Oath to Congress, and served 3 years in prison. |
| Who was Joseph McCarthy and what is his relationship to the Cold War? | An American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator in Wisconsin. He is known for alleging that many communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the U.S. federal government, universities, film industry, etc. |
| Who were Julius & Ethel Rosenberg and what is their relationship to the Cold War? | They are married and were charged with being Soviet spies and with passing on atomic secrets to the Soviets. Julius was a wartime engineer, and both had access to highly secret data. They were Jewish, and suffered for it. |
| What happened to Julius & Ethel Rosenberg (in 1953)? | They were executed. |
| What was the "Declaration of Conscience"? | A Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950. |
| What was the "House Committee on Un-American Activities"? | Congressional committee that investigated suspected Nazi and Communist sympathizers |
| What was the "Hollywood Ten"? | A group of actors that took the more difficult route of claiming that the HUAC hearing were threatening their First Amendment rights of speech |
| Why was Korea divided into North and South Korea at the 38th parallel after WWII? | For military purposes |
| When and how did the Korean War start? | It started on June 25, 1950. It started because the Koreans were afraid the U.S would try to take control of the rest of Korea |
| Which Korean politician did the United States back before the Korean War began? | Syngman Rhee |
| Which Korean politician did the Soviet Union back before the Korean War began? | Kim II-Sung |
| Who commanded U.S. and UN forces when the Korean War began? | Douglas MacArthur |
| List two (2) problems that the U.S. forces encountered during the Korean War that made fighting difficult. | 1) Korean winter, freezing to death 2) they could not see the Chinese army during night fighting |
| Who replaced Gen. MacArthur in early 1951? | General Matthew Ridgway |
| When was the armistice ("cease fire") signed that ended the Korean War? | July 1953 |
| List three (3) things that were included in FDR's "Economic Bill of Rights". | 1) job creation 2) national health 3) public utilities |
| Who won the election of 1948? | Harry S. Truman |
| What does the term "Fair Deal" mean/ refer to? | The name President Harry Truman gave to his police to continue and extend many of the New Deal’s domestic policies. |
| Who won the election of 1952? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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