HUSH 27-31 pt1

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and concepts from the post-World War II era, specifically the 1950s and 1960s.

Containment

A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

Marshall Plan

Offered by Truman, this was an aid package to European nations after World War II to help them rebuild and resist communist influence.

Cold War

The state of political hostility and non-war competition between the United States and Soviet Union between 1945 and 1990.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

A military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties and serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

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.

Iron Curtain

The name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

Korean War

A conflict between North Korea (supported by China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (supported by the United States and the United Nations) from 1950 to 1953, ending in a stalemate.

Cuban Missile Crisis

A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Great Society

President Lyndon B. Johnson's set of domestic programs aimed at reducing poverty and racial injustice.

Civil Rights Movement

Movement in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring suffrage in Southern states.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Jim Crow laws

The segregation laws enacted in the Southern United States following Reconstruction, continuing in force until 1965.