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ch 16&17 vocab
Ch 17 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of World War II veterans by providing education and employment aid |
| baby boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
| productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services preformed |
| Taft-Hartley Act | a law that restricted the power of labor unions |
| Fair Deal | President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms |
| Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
| Sunbelt | name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest |
| service sector | businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods |
| information industry` | businesses that provide informational services |
| franchise business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
| multinational corporation | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world |
| AFL-CIO | in 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress in Industrial Organization (CIO) labor unions united |
| California Master Plan | called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of the state's citizens |
| consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
| median family income | measure of average family income |
| nuclear family | ideal of typical household with a father. mother, and children |
| Benjamin Spock | author who wrote the beat selling book of the era; "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" |
| rock-and-roll | music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African American music |
| Elvis Presley | most famous rock-and-roller of his time and he sparked popularity for rock music |
| beatnik | small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of American society |
| inner city | the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live |
| urban renewal | government programs for redevelopment of urban areas |
| termination policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans |
| satellite state | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| Cold War | worldwide rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR |
| iron curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the USSR satellite states and Western Europe |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements |
| George F Kennan | writer that wrote under the alias "X", American diplomat and a leading authority in the Soviet Union |
| containment | policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders |
| Marshall Plan | foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II |
| Berlin airlift | program in which US and Britain pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion |
| Warsaw Pact | military alliance of the USSR and its satellite states |
| Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist leader who fought a civil war against communists |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader who fought in civil war |
| 38th parallel | the dividing line that separated North Korea (Soviets) from South Korea (US) |
| Douglas MacAuthur | WWII hero, thought of plan to attack North Koreans at Inchon and drove N Koreans north of the 38th parallel |
| limited war | war fought to achieve only specific goals |
| South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) | defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia |
| arms race | contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
| Mutually Assured Destruction | policy in which the US and the USSR hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's secretary of state who helped organized the United Nations after WWII |
| massive retaliation | policy threatening the use massive force in response to aggression |
| brinkmanship | belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against communist aggression |
| Nikita Khrushchev | new head of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death |
| nationalize | to place a resource under government control |
| Suez crisis | attempt by France and Great Britain to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956 |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the US would use force to help any nation threatened by communisn |
| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | US intelligence-gathering organization |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | government agency that coordinates US efforts in space |
| Red Scare | fear the communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
| Smith Act | law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the US government |
| House Un-American Activities (HUAC) | congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the US |
| Hollywood Ten | group of lover writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties |
| blacklist | list of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties |
| Alger Hiss | educated and successful man who was accused of having ties with communists |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | the were from the poor side of Manhattan, arrested for being spies and found guilty and executed |
| Joseph R. McCarthy | senator from Wisconsin who charged that the State Department had communist agents |
| McCarthyism | negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty |
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