Cold War and Fair Deal

Taiwan

after fleeing from China, Chiang Kai Shek and his supporters established a government in exile in this country

Currency Reform

Britain, France, and the US wanted to institute this in Germany in order to reunify the divided nation

K1C2

Platform that Eisenhower ran on; promised to combat Korea, Corruption, and Communism

Department of Defense

This cabinet department united what had previously been the Departments of War and Navy

Dewey

Republican candidate that ran against Truman in 1948

Levittowns

Mass produced homes built in a similar fashion for low-costs in the suburbs

Executive Order 9835

Established a Loyalty Review Board for federal employees

Truman Doctrine

Provided financial and military assistance to any nation threatened by communism

Warsaw Pact

A military alliance between the USSR and its satellite nations

Venona Files

These documents revealed evidence that Soviet spies had infiltrated the US government during the Cold War era

Containment

US policy to stop the spread of communism

GI Bill of Rights

This guaranteed veterans free college tuition, low interest loans, unemployment compensation up to 1 year after returning home, and public sector jobs

Operation Vittles

Britain, France, and the US responded to the blockade with this in order to provide food, medicine, and other resources to the people of West Berlin

Formosa

Taiwan’s Chinese government in exile was also known as this

Berlin Blockade

In response to the unification of Britain, France, and the US’s pieces of Germany, stalin instituted this

NATO

Democratic military alliance formed in response to the Berlin Blockade

Police Force

America began viewing themselves as this for the world as opposed to previously being isolationist

Einsenhower

First war hero president since Grant

Hydrogen Bomb

Upon hearing that the Soviets had successfully detonated their first atomic bomb, Truman ordered the research and development of this

Employment Act of 1946

Established that only private enterprise was reponsible for economic decisions—not the government

Baby Boom

Time period that stretched from 1946-1964 in which many new babies were born

Mao Zedong

Communist leader in China

Iron Curtain

An imaginary line that separated democracy from communsim in Europe

Marshall Plan

Guaranteed over $13 billion over 4 years to any European nation that needed it

State’s Rights Party

This was a third party that ran in 1948; separated from the Democratic Party

Taft-Hartley Act

Limited union’s power to boycott

National Security Act of 1947

Created the National Security Council, Department of Defense, Air Force, and the CIA