US History Unit 7

Marshall Plan

US goal to give aid to help rebuild the economies of European countries.

101st Airborne division

Eisenhower called on them to help the Little Rock Nine desegregate the first school in Arkansa

Korean War

Where the policy of containment was used to keep communism from spreading

Federal Loyalty Program

Truman allowed the government to question employees about communist suspicions but resulted in the firing of thousands of employees

Truman Doctrine

emphasized the policy of containment

NATO

US and her military allies pitted against Communist countries during the Cold War

the Army hearings

Led to Senator McCarthy's downfall when they were broadcast on television

sunbelt/southern U.S.

post-war American shift in population

38th parallel

Where The North Korean army invaded South Korea causing a war

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Charged, convicted, and executed specifically for passing secrets about nuclear science to the Soviets

Warsaw Pact

An alliance of Eastern European nations to Communist Russia

People's Republic of China

Became another ally of USSR as the United States refused to recognize them

Taiwan

Where the Nationalists fled to when China turned to Communism

inflation

The economic problem that the postwar economy suffered from in the USA

William Levitt

A businessman who mass-produced suburban housing

Baby Boom

Caused as people got married younger

Hollywood Ten

Those involved were blacklisted in the entertainment industry

church

families attended in higher numbers than in the pre-war era as they did not want to be seen as supporting the anti-religious values of the USSR

GI Bill

Contributed to a surge in postwar home construction and sales as mortgage loans and college education were given to war veterans

Emmett Till

His murder trial served to publicize the brutal treatment of blacks in the South

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The president who sought to navigate his political office as a moderate, being sought by Republicans and Democrats

Berlin blockade

The way in which the Soviet Union tried to gain control over West Berlin, Germany

Television

Idealized families centered around the father as key wage earner and the mother as homemaker

Rock-and-Roll

Helped in cultural Civil Rights by crossing race lines, as whites and blacks liked it

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. lead this economic protest that later the Supreme Court recognized

Mutually Assured Destruction

Oddly, it kept the United States and the Soviet Union from officially engaging in a direct conflict

Harry Truman

As president was able to integration the military, as well as initiating the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Plan

Sputnik in 1957

Caused American's to question the quality of American education

penicillin

Became a mirical drug in the 1950s

"in God we trust"

was added to US currency in the 1950's

Douglas MacArthur

President Truman differed with him on whether or not we should continue our aggressive strategy in North Korea

Mao Zedong

Known as the Founding Father of the People's Republic of China when they went Communist

Brown v. Board of Education

Overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine of "separate but equal doctrine," stating that "separate was unequal."

Alger Hiss

A state department official, who committed treason, but was prosecuted for perjury

Consumer goods

Focused by the US economy as they shifted away from wartime production in the 1950s

The Beats

Rejected the middle class consumerism, the suburban lifestyle and the spirit of conformity / unity

Red Scare / McCarthyism

The time period that produced paranoia and accusations, which some thought threatened the torch of liberty

iron curtain

What Winston Churchill called the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe

Jackie Robinson

The first black man to play major league baseball