Term
|
Definition
| a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| blocking of another nation that is trying to spread it's influence to other places. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that develpoed between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A US policy announced by Harry Truman to provide economic and military aid to free nations treatened by internal ans external opponets. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The US supplied ecominc aid to European nations to help them rebulid after WWII. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a 327-day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies to West Berlin after the soviets blockaded the country. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization; member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Led China's communist revolution following decades of civil war. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| President of the Republic of China/ |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The border between north and south Korea. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
conflict between North and South Korea in which the US and other UN countries fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North
Koreans.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| House Un-American Activities Committee; a congressional commettie that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following WWII. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A list of over 500 actors, writters, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who have been accused to have passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets. Although evidence weren't clear about them, they were still found guilty and sentenced to death.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Joseph McCarthy and others on people subspected of being communist. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hydrogen Bomb; a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Promised to inforce the anticommunist foreign policy. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The practice of threating a enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Central Intelligence Agency; A US agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and it's Eastern European Sateilites. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Eisenhower. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| When the Planes were shot down. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Provided houses and education to the military when they returned home. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 33rd president that faced economic troubles including severe shortages and numerous strikes. Removed many people from office that was considered communist. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One of the Southern delegates who, to protest President Truman's civil rights policy, walked out of the 1984 Democratic national convention and formed the states' rights democratic party. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
President Harry Truman's econimic program. (increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A business that has bought the right to use a parnets companies name and methods. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Increase in the U.S. birthrate following WWII. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Agency that regulates U.S. communications industries. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A social and artistic movement stressing unrestrained literay self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| nonconformistsIt started as a literary movement centered around the novels of Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A president that supported Harry Truman. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Built to keep the communist in the communist side, and the nons aren't about to come in or get out. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prohibits nuclear weapon test explosions and any other nuclear explosions |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Kenedy's legislative program that provided medical care for the elderly, rebuild urban areas, aid education, boister the nation offense, increase international aid, and to expand the space program. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A agency established to provide voluteer assistance to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Program that provided economic and techinal assistance to Latin America Countries. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Group that invesigated the assissination of Kennedy and concluded that Lee Oswald was alone responsible for it. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Supported Roosevelt and He wanted “an all-out war”. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of the life in the U.S. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Provides hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 and over. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Provides Health insurance for people on welfare. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the re-drawing of election districts to reflect changes in population. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Preacher that wanted to help stop rasism and spearations. "I have a dream" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Told a white person no, that she wasn't getting up for them, and she got arrested for it. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Organization fomed by M.L. King and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the 1960s to challenge segragation. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy test and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Stop segragation using violence. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A religious group that wanted to promote black separation and the Islamic religion |
|
|
