Truman and Eisenhower Vocab

Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1952

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

Baby boom-

Suburban growth-

Sunbelt-

Harry Truman-

Employment Act of 1946-

Council of Economic Advisers-

Committee on Civil Rights-

Twenty-second Amendment-

Taft-Hartley Act (1947)-

Progressive party-

States-Rights party (Dixiecrats)-

J. Strom Thurmond-Thomas Dewey-

Fair Deal-

United Nations-

World Bank-

Communist satellites-

Iron Curtain-

Winston Churchill-

Containment policy-

Truman Doctrine-

Marshall Plan-

Berlin airlift-

East Germany; West Germany-

North Atlantic Treaty Organization-

National Security Act (1947)-

Arms race-

Korean War; U.N. police action-

38^th parallel-

McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)-

House Un-American Activities Committee-

Alger Hiss & Whittaker Chambers-

Rosenberg case-

Joseph McCarthy-

The Eisenhower Years, 1952-1960

Modern Republicanism-

Highway Act (1956); interstate

John Foster Dulles; “brinksmanship”-

Iran-

Geneva Conference-

Ho Chi Minh-

Vietnam-

Domino theory-

Eisenhower Doctrine-

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)-

“spirit of Geneva”-

Nikita Khrushchev-

Warsaw Pact-

Sputnik-

National Aeronautics and Space Administration-

U-2 incident-

Fidel Castro-

Military-industrial complex-

Civil rights-

Jackie Robinson-

NAACP-

Desegregation-

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka-

Earl Warren-

Little Rock crisis-

Rosa Parks-

Montgomery bus boycott-

Martin Luther King, Jr.-

Civil rights acts of 1957, 1960-

Civil Rights Commission-

Southern Christian Leadership Conference-

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society-

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