Social Studies cards about the korean war
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- UN big 5
- security council-great britain,u.s.,france,china,soviet union
- Truman doctrine
- he tried to stop the advance of communism into turkey and greece (gave 400 million)
- marshall plan
- us gave economic aid to western europe to help them rebuild after ww2
- ERP
- european recovery program
- berlin airlift
- every 2 minutes we flew supplies into berlin
- berlin blockade
- USSR blocked only way into berlin-people couldnt get supplies
- red scare
- macarthy was accusing people of being communists
- HUAC
- commitee that went after communists. richard nixon was in this commitee
- alger hiss
- famous case to come out of HUAC-he was an advisor to the president
- NATO
- north atlantic treaty organization-eisenhower was the head of it
- election of 1948
- dewey v.s. truman-very close election
- the atomic energy act (AEC)
- controlled materials needed to make an atomic bomb
- GI bill
- soldiers after ww2 were sent to college and were given homes
- taft harding act
- outlawed "closed shop" (only serve to people who are in the union)-congress said people have a right to work without a union
- rosenburgs
- husband and wife that gave nuclear secrets to the russians. they were executed
- iron curtain
- edge of soviet sattelite states
- 22nd ammendment
- president cant run for more than 2 terms
- CIA
- national security act
- truman civil rights
- de-segregated the military. made anti-lynching laws-appoints first african american judge to federal court
- nurnberg trials
- nazi leaders were tried for war crimes
- dean acheson
- believed communism would take over the world-pushed for a policy of containment
- strom thurmond
- was a "dixiecrat"-was against civil rights-became a senator
- mao zedong
- let communists take over in china