IB History of Americas - Truman Era Quiz

22nd Amendment

Presidency is limited to two terms

Chiang Kai-Shek

Leader of the Nationalists in China and made allies with the US against the Communist party in China

Collective Security

If one nation is attacked, everyone defends the attacked

Containment

The idea of keeping something in places it is already established, but not letting it spread.

Ethel & Julius Rosenburg

Married couple that sold US nuclear secrets to the USSR

Fair Deal

Truman's 2nd term focus: minimum wage increase, Housing Act of 1949, civil rights legislation, Fair Employment Practices Commission, etc.

GI Bill

Bill that supported veterans through: job training, education, healthcare, and housing subsidies.

Good Neighbor Policy

FDR's attempt to walk back the Monroe Doctrine

Hollywood 10

A group of writers and directors that associated with the American Communist Party given 1 year jail sentences

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Department created to investigate left-wingers

J. Edgar Hoover

FBI Director during the Red Scare that encouraged the investigations

Joseph McCarthy

Senator that headed the anti-communism movements in America that led to the consequences of the Red Scare

Mao Zedong

Leader of the communist party in China

Marshall Plan

Money given to rebuild after WWII, but countries could not be communist if they accepted

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Organization created as a defensive alliance against the USSR

Neocolonialism

Country dominated economically instead of taken over by physical force

Point IV Technical Assistance Progam

Program to give money to developing countries after WWII. Only $79M to Latin America and $18B to rest of world.

Protectorate

Country whose foreign affairs and domestic stability are "looked after" by more powerful nation

Organization of American States (OAS)

Laid down military strategy/administration to fight communism in the Americas

Red Scare

Outburst of fear against communists, both real and imagined

Rio Conference

An attack on one American nation would constitute an attack on all

Strom Thurmond

Senator that was anti-civil rights and started a group called the "dixie-crats"

Subversives

People in entertainment industry who had ties to the political left

Taft-Hartley Act

Limited the power of labor unions by monitoring their actions. Initially vetoed by Truman, but overruled by congress

Thomas Dewey

Truman opponent for his 2nd term. Expected to win by a landslide, but lost by a landslide

Truman Doctrine

US would help any countries under attack from communists

Warsaw Pact

USSR's version of/response to NATO