After WWII
The GI Bill helped former soldiers do what?
Go to college and buy new homes.
The main goal of the United Nations was what?
prevent wars and conflicts.
The Taft-Hartley allowed employers to do what?
Employers could hire non-union workers.
President Truman ____________ policy was tested when US funds helped Greece and Turkey fight a COmmunist takeover.
containment
____________ help end school segregation and later joined the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
How many men and women died during WWII?
400,000
Who was president of the Soviet Union after WWII?
Joseph Stalin
Under President Truman's Fair Deal program, the ____________ increased.
minimum wage
The federal government built ______________, which attracted home builders to the suburbs.
This person created a plan to rebuild European cities.
During the Korean War, ___________, got military support from the Soviet Union and China.
North Korea
Who was President of the US during the Korean war?
President Truman
Another name for the European Program was the ____________.
Marshall Plan
__________ was the use of machines to do work.
Automation
What were Sputnik and Sputnik 2?
Soviet satellites.
The US needed more schools after WWII because of a(an) _____________.
"OK boomer"
Who was the leader of the United Kingdom (England) after WWII?
Winston Churchill
When the Soviets cut off supplies to Berlin, President Truman ordered the _____________.
airlift
A network connecting US cities that was built in the 1950's is called ____________.
Highway
In the 1950's tv portrayed women as mostly ____________.
housewives
As a result of better irrigation systems and machinery, ______________ became a major part of the nation's economy.
Farming
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
a war hero, NAtO commander and US president.
Twelve countries formed _______________ to protect each other from attack.
United Nations
The space race was between the US and what other country?
Soviet Union
The actions of Rosa Parks started the _______________.
Civil rights movement