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American Pageant 36
Trainor- AP United States History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| GL Bill of Rights | popular name for the servicemen's readjustment act, which provided assistance to former soldiers |
| Sun Belt | shorthand name for the southern and western regions of the u.s. that experiences the highest rates of growth after WWII |
| Levittown | new york suburb where postwar builders pioneered the techniques of mass home construction |
| Baby Boom | term for the dramatic rise in u.s. births that began immediately after WWII |
| Yalta Conference | big three wartime conference that later became the focus of charges that roosevelt had "sold out" eastern europe to the soviet communists |
| Cold War | the extended post-WWII confrontation between the United States and the soviet union that stoppped just short of a shooting war |
| Brettan Woods | meeting of western allies during WWII that established the economic structures to promote recovery and enhance FDR's vision of an "open world" |
| United Nations | new international organization that experienced some early success in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control |
| Iron Curtain | term for the barrier that stalin erected to block off soviet-dominated nations of eastern europe from the west |
| Marshall Plan | american-sponsored effort that provided funds for the economic relief and recovery of western europe |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | the new anti-soviet organization of western nations that ended the long-time american tradition of not joining permanent military alliances |
| Nationalist | jian jieshi's (chiang kai-shek's) pro-american forces, which lost the chinese civil war to mao zedong's (mao tse-tung's) commmunists in 1949 |
| NSC-68 | key u.s. government memorandum that militarized american foreign policy and indicated national faith in the economy's capacity to sustain large military expenditures |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities | u.s. house of representatives committee that too the lead in investigating alleged procommunist agents such as alger hiss |
| 38th Parallel | the dividing line between north and south korea, across which the fighting between communists and united nations focres ebbed and flowed during the korean war |
| Benjamin Spock | physician who provided advice on child rearing to baby-boomers' parents after WWII |
| Herman Goering | top nazi official who committed suicide after being conicted in war-crimes trials |
| Joseph Stalin | the tough leader whose violation of agreements in eastern europe and germany helped launch the cold war |
| Berlin | territory deep inside the soviet sone of germany that was itself divided into four zones of occupation |
| Iran | oil-rich middle eastern nation that became an early focal point of soviet-american conflict |
| George F. Kennan | brilliant u.s. specialist on the soviet union and originator of the theory that u.s. policy should be to "contain" the soviet union |
| Greece | southern european nation whose threatened fall to communism in 1947 precipitated the truman doctrine |
| George C. Marshall | originator of a massive program for the economic relief and recovery of devastated europe |
| Japan | nation that was effectively converted from dictatorship to democracy by the strong leadership of general douglass macarthur |
| Nuremburg | site of a series of controversial war-crimes trials that led to the execution of twelve nazi leaders |
| Richard Nixon | young california congressman whose investigation of alger hiss spurred fears of communist influence in america |
| Joseph McCarthy | wisconsin senator whose charges of commmunist infiltration of the u.s. government deepened the anti-red atmosphere of the 1950s |
| Henry A. Wallace | former vice president of the united states whose 1948 campaign as a pro-soviet liberal split the democratic party |
| Strom Thurmond | southern segregationist who led "dixiecrat" presidential campaign against truman in 1948 |
| Douglas MacArthur | american military commander in korea fired by president harry truman |
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