Chapter 27 - The Cold War

Taft Hartley Act

The ________ did not destroy the labor movement, as many union leaders had predicted.

Stalin

________ wanted to impose heavy reparations on Germany and to ensure a permanent dismemberment of the nation.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

On April 4, 1949, twelve nations signed an agreement establishing the ________ (NATO) and declaring that an armed attack against one member would be considered an attack against all.

Reconversion

________ was particularly difficult for the millions of women and minorities who had entered the workforce during the war.

1946

In the summer of ________, President Truman vetoed an extension of the authority of the wartime Office of Price Administration, thus eliminating price controls.

private homes

Fallout shelters sprang up in public buildings and ________, stocked with water and canned goods.

John Foster Dulles

________, who would become secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration, wrote the foreign policy plank of the Republican platform in 1952 27.2: American Society and Politics After the War The Problems of Reconversion.

Yalta

The ________ accords, in other words, were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles that sidestepped the most difficult questions.

Berlin

The crisis in ________ accelerated the consolidation of what was already in effect an alliance among the United States and the countries of Western Europe.

Roosevelt

In February 1945, ________ joined Churchill and Stalin for a peace conference in the Soviet city of Yalta- a resort on the Black Sea that was once a summer palace for the tsars.

National Security Act of 1947

The ________ reshaped the nations major military and diplomatic institutions.