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Satellite Nations
A “buffer zone” of countries under Soviet control
Berlin Airlift
A ten month program that brought relief to the capital of Germany
Jiang Jieshi
The Nationalist Party leader of China
Sputnik
The first artificial satellite launched by the soviet union
HUAC
A Congressional group set up to persecute the Communist Party
Douglas MacArthur
The leader of American forces during the Korean War
Mao Zedong
The communist party leader of China
Hollywood Ten
A group of writers, directors, and actors who refused to answer HUAC’s questions
Containment
a policy of restricting soviet expansion
Thirty eighth parallel
boundary between North and South Korea
Brinkmanship
Military strategy that rested on assured massive retaliation
Joseph McCarthy
A U.S. Senator famous for his overzealous persecution of suspected communists
Truman Doctrine
A policy that the U.S. will help countries stand up to outside forces
Dwight Eisenhower
President elected in 1952 who promised to end the Korean war
United Nations
A post-war international organization
Alger Hiss
State department employee who was accused of being a soviet spy
Marshall Plan
A program to help pay for the rebuilding of Europe
Hydrogen Bond
The result of an arms race with the soviet union that vaporized a small island
Warsaw pact
Soviet response to NATO
A twelve country military alliance
NATO
Jonas Salk
doctor who developed polio vaccine
Harry Truman
president and former commander in chief of the armed forces
Benjamin Spock
pediatrician who wrote a highly influential book on child care
Betty Friedan
Author of the Feminine Mystique
William Levitt
developer of building techniques that allowed rapid construction of suburbs
Richard Nixon
Eisenhower’s vice presidential running mate
Jack Kerouac
Author of On the ROad, considered the leader of the beat generation
Ray Kroc
Entrepreneur who built a nation-wide chain of fast food restaurants
Taft-Harley Act
A legislation that weakened labor unions
conglomerate
giant corporation that invests in a wide range of businesses that produce different goods and services
franchise
the right for a group or individual to market a company’s good and services
Rock and roll
music that grew out of rhythm and blues
baby boom
high birth rate following WWII
GI bill of rights
legislation that gave WWII veterans benefits like college tuition and low-interest loans
beatniks
group of writers and artists who promoted spontaneity
Fair deal
Truman’s program to have the government play an active roll in the economy.
Medicare
Provides hospital and low cost medical insurance to most Americans age 65 and older
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet leader during the Cuban missile crisis
New frontier
nickname for Kennedy’s proposals
Cuban Missile Crisis
Standoff between U.S. and the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
winner of 1960 presidential election
Kennedy
Great society
Nickname for Johnson’s series of legislation and proposals
Fidel Castro
communist leader of cuba
Alan Shepard
first American to travel to space
Miranda rule
guideline for police to inform accused persons of their legal rights
Yuri Gagarin
first human to travel to space
Lee Harvey Oswald
kennedy’s assassin according to the warren commission
Apportionment
the distribution of the seats in a legislature among electoral districts
VISTA
A program to send volunteers into poor communities in the U.S.
Berlin Wall
barrier in the capital of Germany separating the Communist and non-communist sections of the city
Lyndon B Johnson
Kennedy’s vice president
Headstart
A preschool program for children from low-income families
Medicaid
Provides low-cost health insurance coverage for poor Americans of any age
Peace corps
a program that sends U.S. volunteers abroad to help developing nations
Mandate
the public’s endorsement of proposals