Chapter 31 - Truman and Eisenhower in Post-War America
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Mutual security
________- Attack on one= attack on all.
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Secretary of Defense
Manage Army + Navy + Air Force
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USSR
Cut off access to Berlin by ground
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1951-1954
2nd Red Scare
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HUAC
Ruined many careers
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1949
US
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Mutual security
Attack on one = attack on all
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1955
USSR
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1945
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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Eisenhower
Tried to cover up secret flights → Harmed reputation
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Truman + Eisenhower
Cold War presidents
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"Good life"
Suburbia + entertainment
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Harry S. Truman
An American politician who served as the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953
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Cold War
A state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States
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Containment
A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
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National Security Act
Mandated a major reorganization of the foreign policy and military establishments of the U.S. Government
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Central Intelligence Agency
An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest
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Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
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Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe; named after George Marshall
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Berlin Airlift
Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
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Fair Deal
Truman’s domestic agenda that expanded the New Deal
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McCarthyism
Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty and connections to Communism
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NATO
An intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states
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Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War
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Korean War
A war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
An American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961
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Elvis Presley
Dubbed the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century
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Baby Boom
The larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
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Federal Highway Act
Provided for a 65,000-km national system of interstate and defense highways to be built over 13 years
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National Defense Education Act
Provides funding to United States education institutions at all levels
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U-2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory
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Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another