APUSH Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| GI Bill | show 🗑
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| "Baby Boom" | show 🗑
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| show | mass produced housing community in Long Island, NY; exemplified growth of suburbs
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| "white flight" | show 🗑
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| "Sun Belt" | show 🗑
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| Fail Deal | show 🗑
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| Employment Act of 1946 | show 🗑
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| show | increased Social Security benefits to more Americans by expanding coverage for retirement
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| show | anti-union law that outlawed closed shops and created "right to work" laws
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| show | first African-American to play major league baseball
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| show | southern Democrats who left Democratic Party because Truman's stance on civil rights; later joined Republican Party
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| 22nd Amendment | show 🗑
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| Cold War | show 🗑
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| "proxy" wars | show 🗑
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| show | America's post WWII foreign policy; sought to keep communism where it was and not let it spread
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| show | outlined the policy of containment; first announced in response to Greece
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| Iron Curtain | show 🗑
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| show | Stalin's plan to cut off West Berlin from supplies in western Germany by cutting off the land routes
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| Berlin Airlift | show 🗑
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| show | economic aid program to re-build European economies after WWII; gave $12 billion to European countries that wanted it
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| show | western military alliance meant to defend all members from attack
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| 38th Parallel | show 🗑
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| show | American general fired by Truman for publicly criticizing Truman's policies
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| Punmunjon | show 🗑
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| Executive Order 9835 | show 🗑
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| National Security Act of 1947 | show 🗑
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| NSC-68 | show 🗑
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| Second Red Scare | show 🗑
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy | show 🗑
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| show | public hearings on TV that exposed McCarthy as a bully; resulted in his being censured by Senate
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| House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | show 🗑
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| Hollywood Ten | show 🗑
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| show | State Department official accused by Richard Nixon of giving secrets to communists
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | show 🗑
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| show | term created by Eisenhower that described weapons makers and military influence on the US foreign policy
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| show | Soviet leader after Stalin
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| show | term that referred to idea that a nuclear attack by one nation would result in the destruction of both nations
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| Fulgencio Bastista | show 🗑
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| Fidel Castro | show 🗑
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| Ho Chi Minh | show 🗑
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| Dien Bien Phu | show 🗑
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| show | after French defeat, split Vietnam the 17th parallel into the communist north, noncommunist south
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| Warsaw Pact | show 🗑
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| show | idea that if one country in southeast Asia was allowed to fall to communists, others would soon follow
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| show | cited national security reasons to build interstate highways (troop/nuke movements)
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| "other directed" society | show 🗑
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| Mass Culture Debate | show 🗑
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| Dr. Benjamin Spock | show 🗑
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| Elvis Presley | show 🗑
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| show | example of male revolt against conformity; found Playboy magazine
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