Question | Answer |
Berlin crisis | Stalin blocked incoming resources to West Berlin to try and force his own control. Americans and British Airlifted supplies to help residents |
38th Parallel | Dividing line between North and South Korea |
NSC-68 | US "strive for victory" in cold war, pressed for offensive and a gross increase ($37 bil) in defense spending, determined US foreign policy for the next 20-30 yrs |
Sputnik | Soviets launched first artificial Satellite. |
Truman Doctrine | American aid to Greece and Turkey to stop spread of Communism |
United Nations | formed at the end of World War II it was designed to promote peace (however at first it was where the US and Soviets competed) |
McCarran Act | Made it unlawful to plan any action that might lead to establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in the US |
Yalta Conference | ( Roosevelt had faith in Stalin’s promises): Divided Germany into occupation zones and Soviets wanted reparation from Germany for the war. |
Potsdam Conferences | (Truman did not trust Stalin): Agreed that Soviets, Americans, French and Britain would take reparations from their own part of occupied Germany. |
Berlin occupation zones | East Germany Soviet and West Germany was divided among US (south-east), Britain (North) and French (South-west) |
Eisenhower Doctrine | US will defend middle east against attack by communist country |
Levittown | utilized mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in suburban NY to relieve postwar housing shortage |
Beat movement | Centered in San Francisco, LA and NY expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers |
Rock n Roll | new music combination of rhythm, blues, country and pop. Mostly black musicians, white audience. Black and white together hailed as American music |
Checker’s Speech | Richard Nixon Given by Richard Nixon on September 23, 1952, when he was the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. Said to have saved his career from a campaign contributions scandal |
Interstate Highway Act | Building of a nationwide highway network |
Arms race | started with Us and Russia trying to be the first to produce and H-bomb, became a race to have more weapons |
Marshall Plan | From the US Secretary of State which suggested aid to European countries (devastated by war) who needed it. |
HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee investigated possible communist influence |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Western European nations, US and Canada formed defensive military alliance against Soviet aggression |