APUSH Ch. 27 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Philippines | became independent. Us retained important naval and air bases. July 4, 1946 |
| Strom Thurmond | ran for president in 1948 election against Henry Wallace and Harry S. Truman. part of State's rights party |
| 22nd amendment | limited power of the president to two full terms |
| Sino-Soviet Pact | signed by Stalin and Mao. world-wide communist conspiracy? |
| Inchon | amphibious assault reversed tide of Korean war. moved towards china. by macaurther |
| Missouri | place of Truman's retirement |
| Greece and Turkey | first test of the Truman Doctrine's containment policy |
| Thomas Dewey | republican candidate in 1948 election |
| Levitt | track housing "white fleet". suburban development |
| George Keenan | expert of communism who believed Soviet's needed a western enemy to stay in power |
| G.I. Bill | Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1946. gave transition support for former troops. provided millions |
| election of 1948 | Truman, Dewey, Thurmond, Wallace. Truman victory |
| years of babyboom | 1945-1960 |
| Churchill | Great Britian's prime minister who attended Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Teheran conferences |
| Lippman | coined the term "cold war" |
| USSR | Cold war with U.S. advocates of communism |
| Years of FDR's presidency | 1933-1945 |
| Years of Truman's presidency | 1945-1953 |
| Atlantic Charter | blueprints for UN. FDR only one to embrace all of the principles |
| Casablanca Conference | Invasion through Sicily. Axis unconditional surrender |
| unconditional surrender | |
| Teheran | first meeting on the Big Three |
| UN Security Council | US, GB, France, China, USSR |
| Yalta | last meeting of the Big Three. division of Germany into four parts. |
| Teheran | first meeting of the Big three |
| UN Security Council | US, GB, France, China, USSR |
| Yalta | last meeting of Big Three. division into four occupation |
| chinese Civil War | between Chiang Kai-shek (Nationalists) and Mao Zedong (Communists). ended up in Communist hands |
| Chinese Nationalists | Kuomintang. lost civil war |
| Chiang Kai Shek | leader of Chinese Nationalist party |
| Mao Ze Dong | leader of chinese communist party |
| Truman Doctrine | containment policy first tested in greece and turkey |
| Economic Cooperation Administration (Marshall Plan) | offered aid to European countries as seen fit. rebuilt western european democracies |
| 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia | brought domestic support for Marshall plan |
| Federal Republic of Germany | West germany (BR, US, FR) |
| German Democratic Republic | East Germany (USSR) |
| Berlin blockade | USSR tightens security over their zone |
| NATO | millitary alliance for defending all allies from outside attack-attack one you attack all |
| Warsaw Pact | counter to NATO by soviets |
| Taiwan (Formosa) | where US supported Chinese Nationalists |
| Fair Deal | reform program defeated by Truman's fights with Congress and pressing foriegn policy concerns of the Cold War |
| Taft Hatley Act | limited the power of labor unions |
| State's Rights Party | in reaction to Truman's support of civil rights. Nominated Thurmond |
| Macaurther | fired by truman after wanting to use atomic power on china |
| Korean War dates | 1950-1953 |
| National Security Act | provided for a centralized Department of Defense that replaced the War Department, created National Security Council and CIA |
| NSC-68 | new policy towards Soviets. |
| 38th parallel | korea was divided |
| Alger Hiss | convicted of perjury in 1950 and sent to prison |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | found guilty of selling atomic bombs to USSR and sentenced to death |
| HUAC | est. in 1939 to seek out nazis. reactivated in postwar years to find communists |
| Whittaker Chambers | former communist and editor of TIME. informed HUAC that Hiss supplied him w/ classified documents in 1937-38 |
| J. Edgar Hoover | director of FBI. used his authority to investigate and harass radicals |
| Joseph McCarthy | declared communists were still working for the State Department. sensational accusations. crusader against domestic subversion |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | republican who won election of 1952. |
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