400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt World War II Famous PeopleCold War Affluent SocietyPolitics
Munich Sudentenland “peace in our time”
appeasement
Created American sympathy for the British and support for Lend- Lease
Battle of Britain
Upheld as legal the internment of Japanese-Americans under Order 9066
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
An alliance between England the U.S. secretly made before US entry into the war.
The Atlantic Charter
Refers to the mobilization in the U.S. during the war.
The “homefront”
Winston Churchill Franklin Roosevelt Joseph Stalin
The Big Three
George Kennan Dean Acheson George Marshall
Created and implemented the “containment” policy under Truman
Oppenheimer v. Teller
Conflict over the development of a “super” bomb
Created the idea of threatening “massive retaliation” as a foreign policy tool
John Foster Dulles
Chiang Kai-shek v. Mao Zedong
Opponents in the Chinese civil war
Western alliance of democracies to contain communism and the communist counterpart
NATO and The Warsaw Pact
Soviet action that stopped the idea of liberating eastern Europe (1956)
Soviet invasion of Hungary
Started with a belief that the State Department was full of communists
McCarthyism
Eisenhower belief that if one country fell to communism then the neighboring countries would follow in quick succession
Domino theory
NASA Federal aid to education Space race
All American responses to Sputnik
Reisman Galbraith Beatniks
All critics of 50’s conformity
Fear of a return to a depression; Growing prosperity; Post war nationalism
All reasons for conformity in the post war period
Franchise stores, Television, Paperbacks, Records
All factors helping to create conformity
Name of housing development that became of symbol of 50’s middle class suburbia
Levittown
SCLC SNCC NAACP
All African-American organizations fighting racial discrimination
Name of Truman’s plan to increase aid to education, create national health insurance, and pass civil rights legislation
The Fair Deal
Name of Eisenhower’s program that maintained New Deal programs but attempted to create a balanced budget.
Modern Republicanism
Name of third party that split from the Democrats because of Truman’s stand on civil rights.
The Dixiecrats
Gained fame as a communist hunter for going after Alger Hiss; picked as the vice presidential candidate
Richard Nixon
Won an unlikely victory in large part because people liked him and because of his actions in a potentially explosive international incident
Harry Truman