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Marshall Plan
$ spent to help rebuild European countries after WWll.
Truman Doctrine
400m to support Greece and Turkey so they don’t fall to communism. We built missile bases in Greece and Turkey to the Soviet Union.
Brinksmanship / Massive Retaliation
Use military weapons to bargain to get wishes fulfilled. Cut the military and increase nuclear weapons. Nuclear = Countries obey.
Containment
Keep European countries from communism
Buffer Zone
Area of protection
Domino Theory
If one country falls to communism then the rest will, so that is why we have the containment plan.
White-Flight
Movement of white families from cities to suburbs.
Baby Boom
A large increase in births after WWll in U.S.
Interstate Highway Act
A law that built highway for defense and travel.
National Defense in Education Act
A law that provided funding to schools for math and science.
Ho Chi Min
The communist leader of North Vietnam
Igor Gouzenko
The Wisconsin Senator who gained political power by accusing government and military officials of being communist sympathizers
Rosa Parks
The African American female whose refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
LIttle Rock 9
The group of African American students who required U.S. troop escorts to integrate a high school after the governor refused to comply
The United Nations
The organization created after WWII to promote global peace and prevent future wars
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The bureaucratic organization that investigated and held trials for the "Hollywood Ten"
Jazz Music
Music of the 1950’s that helped to ease racial tensions and was widely popular with young people.
Detente
A french term that showed an easing of tensions between the U.S. and communist countries during the Cold War.
Gulf of Tonkin
An attack on the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy that allowed for President Johnson to send American troops into Vietnam.
Sputnik
The Soviet satellite that launched the space race between the U.S. and USSR.
The 1896 Supreme Court ruling that established the "separate but equal" doctrine was _______, which was later overturned in 1954 by ______.
Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education
The ______ provided returning World War II veterans with federal aid to attend college, start businesses, and buy homes.
GI Bill
The _______ was a 1962 standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that is considered the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
In the 1950s, the fastest-growing industry in the United States was ________.
Automobile industry
About 85 percent of new home construction in the 1950s took place in the ________.
Suburbs
The _____ allowed for continued military escalation in Vietnam under President Lyndon B. Johnson
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution