History Final Exam
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- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
- George Kennan
- Published "Foreign Affairs" where he provided an analysis of soviet intentions. Suggested "containment"of Russian expansion.
- Election of 1948
- truman vs dewey, truman was dem. ppl expect dewey to win
- Containment
- US would work in military and non-military ways to prevent communism from spreading around the world
- Korean War
- the cold war conflict in which UN soliders fought to defend South Korea from takeover by Communist North Korea, ending a stalemate in 1953
- John Foster Dulles
- The secretary of state when in 1953 arranged with Eisenhower to secretly threaten to use atomic warfare.
- Commercialism
- transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
- United Nations
- an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
- Second Red Scare
- There was a resurgence of the communist threat in American government so fingers were pointed. Alger Hiss was one man accused of working for the communists.
- twenty-second amdendment
- Forbade any president from serving more than two years
- Suez Canal Crisis
- An attack on Egypt by Britain, Israel, and France
- McCarthyism
- The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Election of 1952
- Eisenhower against Stevenson... Eisenhower wins
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A republican, a five star general of the army in WWII, commander of NATO, promised to clean up the white house after the red scare and corruption of the previous pres.
- Truman Doctrine
- 1947; Truman's statement of a new policy of active engagement to contain communism in response to communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey; persisted long after Mediterranean crisis, setting foundation for Cold War policy
- Berlin Airlift
- airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
- The "Checkers" Speech
- A speech given by Nixon as acceptance of being Eisenhower's running mate which discussed the accusations that he received illegal campaign donations. He stated the only thing he received was his dog, checkers.
- Douglas MacArthur
- he was fired after he criticized Truman for not using nuclear weapons against North Korean
- Rock n Roll
- Music that was blamed for teenage delinquency
- Cuba
- Fidel Castro gained control after guerrilla warfare against the Bartistas. He turned to the Soviet Union for support and trade and started conducting communism. The US cut of trade and diplomatic relations as a result.
- Beatniks
- a United States youth subculture of the 1950s that rebelled against the mundane horrors of middle class life.
- Space Race
- a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union
- Fair Deal
- A deal that created projects to create jobs, build public housing, and end racial discrimination. South Democrats and Republicans worked together to stop his projects.
- Marshall Plan
- a massive American aid program announced in 1947 to help European nations recover from World War II
- Suburbanization
- Happened due to population increase and less demand for farm activity. The expanding automobile industry also helped.
- National Security Act
- 1947; enacted to back up the Truman Doctrine; established the National Security Council to advise the president, established the Central Intelligence Agency to gather information abroad and engage in covert activities in support of the nation's security, began the processes of transforming the old War and Navy Depts into the Department of Defense, and combined the leadership of the army,navy, and air force under the Joint Chiefs of Staff; showed Truman's and Americans' fears of communist invasion after WWII
- Red China
- China soon became a communist country and the nationalist fled to Taiwan