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Chapters 29,31, Truman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Republican Pres in 1952 promised to end Korean war | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| North Korea | communist Korean nation |
| South Korea | democratic Korean nation |
| Arms race start | US test H-bomb in 1952, USSR tests in 1953 |
| Indochina | peninsula in Southeast Asia: under French control |
| Ho Chi Ming | defeated French and created communist North Vietnam |
| North Vietnam | communist |
| South Vietnam | democratic |
| Nikita Krushchev | ·came to power in Russia in 1953 after Stalin’s death |
| launching of Sputnik in 1957 | 1st satellite by Russians. Started the “Space Race |
| Brown v. Topeka Board of Education | 1954. Held that all public schools in U.S. had to be integrated. |
| Orval Faubus | Governor of Arkansas closed high schools in 1958 to avoid integration. |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up seat on bus in Montgomery Alabama |
| Martin Luther King | organized bus boycot in Montgomery Alabama |
| National Guard | Eisenhower called in troops to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Richard Nixon | vp of Eisenhower |
| Kennedy v. Nixon debate | 1st televised 1960 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | vp of Kennedy, southern pol interested in civil rights |
| youngest man elected Pres | JF Kennedy |
| Profiles in Courage | Pulitizer Prize book written by Kennedy |
| Peace Corps | a program for worldwide volunteers |
| Bag of Pigs | support a group of Cuban refugee fighters in an invasion plan to overthrow Castro |
| Berlin Blockade | In August 1961 the Russians erected a wall along the boundary of West and East Germany |
| Cuban missile crisis | 1962 Russia delivered and assembled ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads to Cuba |
| Berlin airlift | airlift of supplies by US and Allies to help Berliners |
| Harry Truman | vp of FDR, became Pres when FDR died in 1945 |
| UN, United Nations | founded in 1945replaced the League of Nations |
| parts of UN | General Assembly and Security Council |
| Big 5 world powers | US, France, England, USSR, China |
| Truman Doctrine | To oppose Communist expansion, peacetime military aid would be a regular tool of U.S. foreign policy. policy. |
| Marshall Plan | European recovery plan to combat hunger, poverty and economic disaster. |
| GI Bill | This law provided hospitals for the sick and wounded, payments to veterans without jobs, low interest loans to buy homes, farms and businesses and free tuition for college or technical training. |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill term for dividing of Europe by USSR |
| Atomic Energy Act | 1946 to preserve a government monopoly of atomic materials |
| Taft-Hartley Act | It outlawed the “closed shop” where only union members could be hired. It also introduced a 60-day “cooling off period” which could be called by the President if a strike threatened public safety. 1947 |
| 22nd Ammendment | amendment limits the President to serving two terms. |
| Presidential Succession Act | made succession pass from the VP to the Speaker of the House and then the leader of the Senate. |
| National Security Act | required the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force to report to the SOD. The act also set up the CIA |
| Potsdam | July 1945 Churchill, Truman and Stalin divided Germany into 4 zones |
| Nuremberg Germany | war crimes tribunal should meet to try Nazi leaders |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO | U.S., Canada and 10 western European nations formed an alliance in which they agreed that an attack on any member would be an attack on them all. |
| Governor Strom Thurmond of S.C | its Presidential candidate. These “Dixiecrats” insisted on segregation of blacks. |
| “red scare | fear of Communists |
| House Un-American Activities Committee | investigate the loyalty of all federal government workers |
| “blacklisted | accused of being a communist, lost jobs |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin | insisted the State Department was full of Communist spies |
| McCarran Internal Security Act in 1950 | required Communist organizations to register with the Attorney General and turn over its membership lists. |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | convicted of selling secrets about the atom bomb to the Russians. They were executed in 1953 |
| General Douglas MacArthur | head of the U.N. troops who were gathered to fight the North Koreans. The U.S. supplied 80% of the troops. |
| Inchon | MacArthur landed a U.N. invasion force and soon recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul. |
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