Ch26: Truman and the Cold War Flashcards
(34 cards)
1944: ____ paid for college, business-starting, housing, and farming
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, aka the “GI Bill of Rights”
Where did people migrate to and why?
The Sunbelt (pants of US) - lower taxes, job opportunities, desegregation, housing, and air conditioning
1946: ______ created the Council of Economic Advisors - what did Congress “water down” that Truman wanted to add?
Employment Act - Truman wanted national health insurance, raise the minimum wage, and tackle full employment
1946: Which organization did Truman create to solidify civil rights in the Justice department?
Committee on Civil Rights
1950: Dixiecrats blocked the _____ from passing the Senate - why didn’t they like it?
Fair Employment Practices Commission - end hiring racial discrimination
1947: _____ no longer requires open shop or union shop clauses, outlaws secondary boycotts, and allows president to call 80-day “cooling off” period before a strike
Taft-Hartley Act
1948: ____ provided financial aid for Western Europe - why?
Marshall Plan - poor countries are more likely to turn communist or fall to dictators (fascists/communists)
1949: _____ promised national healthcare, federal aid to education, civil rights legislation, public housing funds, and a new program for helping farmers - what actually got passed?
The Fair Deal - raised minimum wage and expanded social security
1951: ______ limits president to two full terms (reaction to FDR)
22nd Amendment
1946: _____ allowed unregulated nuclear energy and weapons
Atomic Energy Commission
1944: ____ formed to rebuild global economies after WWII - who doesn’t join?
World Bank - USSR stays out
Which countries did the USSR “take over” with Stalin’s political allies?
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
June, 1948 to May, 1949
Berlin Blockade - US uses airlifts to get supplies to eastern Berlin
Founders of NATO - when did US join?
Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Luxembourg, and US - 1949
1955: Founders of Warsaw Pact:
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and USSR
1947: ______ reorganizes foreign and military policies in response to threat of USSR
National Security Act
3 parts of the National Security Act:
- Department of Defense replaces War Department to oversee military operations
2: National Security Council (NSC) formed to advise president on foreign policy (Cold War)
3: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) formed to spy on foreign governments
1948: _____ reinforces peacetime draft
Selective Service Act, also known as the Elston Act
1949: USSR has their first ____
Atomic bomb -> US adds h-bomb to their arsenal
1951: _______ ends Japanese imperialism - what does Japan have to give up?
Treaty of San Francisco - Japan gives up Korea and pacific islands
1951: ________ allows US to keep military bases in Japan, ten year renewable contract
US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
Chinese nationalist party - who was their leader?
Kuomintang party - led by Chiang Kai-Shek
1949: Communists take over _____ - where do the nationalists go?
Mainland China - Kuomintangs flee to Taiwan (former Japanese island)
Who takes over Communist China?
Mao Zedong
