FDR’s Four Freedoms
Alger Hiss
McCarthyism/Second Red Scare
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Executive Order 9981
Dixiecrats
Taft-Hartley Act
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
J. Edgar Hoover
Douglas MacArthur and Japan
Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
division of Germany
United Nations
formation of Israel
collective security
Iron Curtain speech
containment
Long Telegram
George Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Tse-Tung
Sino-Soviet Pact
superpower
defense spending in 1950’s
Nikita Khrushchev
De-Stalinization
Sputnik
NASA
U-2 incident
Interstate Highway System
22nd Amendment
third world in Cold War
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation AJAX
Suez Crisis
assassination of Patrice Lumumba
proxy conflicts
division of Korea
MacArthur and Korea
result of Korean war
NSC-68
Massive Retaliation
John Foster Dulles
Military Industrial Complex
arms race
election of 1960
New Frontier
Peace Corps
“Race to the Moon”
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Flexible Response
assassination of JFK
middle class
air conditioning effect
population shift in 1950’s
The Affluent Society
The Other America
National Defense Education Act
Levittown
baby boom
car culture
American Bandstand
Television of 1950’s
suburbanization