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Stufflet Unit 18
Unit 18 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 1945-1960 | “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” |
| nickname for Truman's domestic program | Fair Deal |
| anti-union law that outlawed closed shops and created "right to work" laws | Taft-Hartley Act (1947) |
| 1st African-American to play major league baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| southern Democrats who left Democratic Party b/c of Truman’s stance on civil rights; later joined Republican Party | Dixiecrats |
| leader of southern Democrats who defected from Democratic Party over Truman's stance on civil rights | Strom Thurmond |
| Period of tension between the US and Soviet Union (USSR) that lasted from 1945-1990 | Cold War |
| wars where 3rd parties or substitutes are used | “proxy” wars |
| 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 Greece | Truman Doctrine |
| referred to fortified border that USSR erected to separate eastern European satellite countries (Eastern bloc) from western Europe | Iron Curtain |
| Stalin's plan to cut off West Berlin from supplies in western Germany by cutting off the land routes in | Berlin Blockade |
| 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 |
| successful amphibious invasion of Korea led by Douglas MacArthur; Seoul retaken within 11 days | Inchon |
| American general fired by Truman for publicly criticizing the Truman's policies | Douglas MacArthur |
| created Department of Defense, National Security Council, and Central Intelligence Agency | National Security Act of 1947 |
| Top secret policy paper that officially defined Cold War as clash b/w “good” and “evil” | NSC-68 |
| 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 |
| public hearings on TV that exposed McCarthy as a bully; resulted in his being censured by Senate | Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954 |
| 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 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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