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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| GI Bill | Gave returning soliders support finacially and educationally |
| United nations | Replaced the league of nations. Promoted peace around the world |
| Iron Curtain/Winston Churchill | Line between the soviet union and the rest of the world. No one knew what was going on in the country. |
| George Kennan | American diplomat. Developed plan to stop the spread of communish using economical, military and political powers of the country |
| Marshall plan | The plan to give massive aid to European countries and make them our allies. |
| Truman Doctrine | Gives Greece and Turkey 400 million dollars to help aid their country and stop it from turning to communism. |
| Jackie Robinson | Baseball player for the Brooklyn dogers. First black major league player. |
| Desegregating the military | Passed by Pres. Harry Truman. Thought their should be equal rights everywhere. |
| Berlin Airlift | The U.S helped aid the city of Berlin through air drops because Stalin had blocked all contact with the city unless it turned communism. |
| Election of 1948 | Harry Truman vs. Strom Truman=wins |
| Mao Zedong vs. Chain Kai-shek | Chain= anti communist, helped america Mao= Communist leader in Vietnam |
| USSR/Atom Bomb | Developed nuclear weapon right after america Had many spies watching american scientist |
| NATO | If one country was bombed then the reset of the countries would fight along side it. Multi-defense pact. |
| Korean War/38 Th Parallel | North and South Korea wanted all to be communist. 38th Parallel divided the north and the south |
| Alger Hiss | Former State department official, accused of being a communist for the soviet union |
| The Rosenbergs | Married couple were spies for the Soviet union, went to trial in supreme court |
| Election of 1952 | Eisenhower vs. Nixon Nixon=winner |
| Joe McCarthy | Accused many people of being communist including the american military to be corrupt. |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-64 |
| Brown vs. Board | Overturned the plessy case- which could segregate color if everything was equal. |
| Martian Luther King Assassination | Murdered by James Earl Ray Memphis TN. |
| Sputnik | First satellite into space, Soviet union |
| Fidel Castro | New leader in Cuba Had support from the soviet union. |
| JFK assassination | Murdered by Lee harvey Oswald |
| Earl Warren | Cheif justice In Brown vs. Board trial |
| Civil rights act | Prohibits discrimination because of race religion national origin gender |
| Voting rights act | Ended the practice of literacy test, and monitored voting sessions |
| Election of 1964 | Linden Johnson |
| Gulf of Tonkin | Ameican ships accuse of being bombed on gave pres. Truman full power to wage a war on vietnam |
| Dien Bien Phu | Place where the french were forced out of vietnam |
| Operation rolling thunder | Bombing plan for vietnam |
| Veitcong | Communist support group in the south got aid on the Ho Chi Minh Trail by soviet union |
| 2atomic bombs | 1st hiroshima little boy 2nd nagasakit fat man |
| Domino theory | Thought that communist would spread like dominos going from one country to the next. |
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