Unit 9 - US History
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- Truman Doctrine
- A policy providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
- Cold War
- The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the Soviet Union.
- Hollywood Blacklist
- A list of people in the Hollywood movie industry who were condemed for having communist backgrounds.
- House Un-American Activities Committee
- A congressional committee that investigated communist influence inside and outside the US government.
- U-2 Incident
- Spy planes flying over the Soveit Union got spotted by infrared and were shot down; the pilots were prisoners for awhile.
- G.I. Bill
- It encouraged veterans to get an education by paying half the tuition; it also offered low interest federally granted loans.
- Hydrogen bomb
- More distructive than the atomic bomb that caused a nation-wide scare.
- United Nations Security Council
- The most powerful organization of the United Nations; its job is to maintain security and peace among nations of the world.
- Marshal Plan
- The program that supplied econmic aid to help rebuild after WWII.
- Iron Curtain
- A phrase used by Winston Churchill to describe an imaginary line that separated communist countries in the Soviet block in Eastern Europe from Western Europe.
- Levittowns
- Rows of standardized homes built to look exactly alike and had certain zoning laws ensuring that they would stay the same.
- Fair Deal
- An extention of the New Deal; it was Truman's economic programs which included measures to increase the minimum wage; to extend social security coverage, and provide housing for low income families.
- suburbanization
- A residential town or community near a city.
- baby boomers
- After WWII, when soldiers returned to their wives, there were a lot of babies born.
- urban renewal
- The tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods.
- C.I.A.
- Used spies to get information; it also began to carry out covert, or secret operations, to weaken or overthrow governments unfriendly to the US.
- McCarthyism
- The attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being communists.
- containment
- The blocking of other nation's attempts to spread its influence.