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Ch.26-27 Flashcards

1
Q

Develop a foreign policy that did not let communism and capitalism were incompatible and that another would certainly follow

A

Policy of Containment

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2
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Developed policy of containment, an american diplomat in Moscow

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George Keenan

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3
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Winston Churchill speech

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“The cold war has begun”

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4
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The policy of the Us, to support free peoples who were resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures

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Truman Doctrine

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5
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Berline Blockade

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Stalin closed all roads and railroads routes through Germany into W Berlin

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6
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Berlin Airlift

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Took off every few minutes for 327 days to deliver people in W Berlin

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7
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12 nations, they pledged mutual support if they were attacked. greece, turkey, and west germany had joined by 1955

A

NATO

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Investigate government employees and dismiss any that were found to be disloyal

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Loyalty Review Board

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9
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HUAC

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House un-american activities committee

It began to investigate communist influence in the movie industry

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10
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Innefctive senator that need a issue to help him be reelected, he began by making unsupported accusations about suspected communist

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McCarthyism

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11
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Alger Hiss Case

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Spy named Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union

  • chambers had been an editor for time magazine
  • hiss had been a member of the state department
  • Govt couldn’t prosecute Hiss bc of length of timeframe alleged case
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12
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Rosenberg Case

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we learned soviets had explodeer an atomic bomb

  • we feared a spy had told them bc they didn’t have that tech yet
  • Klaus Fuchs admitted giving the soviets info about the bomb
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13
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willing to use all of our force-including nukes-against any aggressor nation

A

Brinkmanship

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14
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Though the cold war was a moral crusade against communism

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John Foster Dulles

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15
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The Soviet Union and the Us would allow flights over each other’s country to guard against surprise nuke attacks

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Open skies by eisenhower

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16
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Believed communism would take over the world, but he believed in peaceful coexistence

A

Nikita Kruschev

17
Q

Worlds first artificial satellite

A

Sputnik

18
Q

Francis Gary Powers final person to fly this

A

U2

19
Q

Began to build houses with an assembly line production

A

William levitt, and Henry Kaiser

20
Q

Viewed as honorable, down to earth, self confident

A

Harry truman

21
Q

Sing on Harry Truman desk

A

“The buck stops here”

22
Q

Civil Rights

A

Truman proposed: anti lynching laws, ban on poll taxes, and integration of the armed forces. Congress denied

23
Q

First black baseball player

A

Jackie Robinson

24
Q

Election of 1948

A

Dem: Harry truman (winner)
Rep: thomas Dewy
Dixicrat: Strom Thrumond

25
Q

Name of pre truman program

A

Fair deal

26
Q

Election of 1952

A

Dem: Adlai Stevenson
Rep: Eisenhower (winner)

27
Q

Baby boom

A

a baby was born every 7 sec

28
Q

A major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries

A

Conglomerates

29
Q

Developed a polio vaccine

A

Jonas Salk

30
Q

The Pocket book of baby and child care

A

Ben Spock
Advised parents not to spank or scold their children, fam should hold meetings with their children and allow them to express themselves

31
Q

The feminine Mystique

A

Betty Friedan

32
Q

New Magazine

A

Sports illustrated, Readers Digest

33
Q

Norman Rockwell

A

Painter

34
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Interstate Highway Act

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Signed by eisenhower and created a nation wide network of interstate highways

35
Q

Advertizine

A

try to convince consumers to buy things they don’t need

36
Q

New TV shows

A

Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy

37
Q

Social and litterary nonconformity of artist, poets, and writers

A

The beat movement

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