People
Democratic presidential candidate in 1960
Who is John F. Kennedy?
An aid package for veterans
What is the GI Bill?
Tension between Americans and Soviets
What is the Cold War?
The movements of large numbers of the American population to areas of the country with warmer climates.
What is the Sun Belt migration?
The name of the joint military alliance formed by the United States, its Western European allies, and other allies.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Many thought Dewey would defeat him in 1948
Who is Harry Truman?
A military alliance of Communist countries
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Action that continued for 321 days in 1948 and 1949 in an effort to overcome a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin airlift?
The "green revolution" refers to these.
What are agricultural improvements?
The three parts of the United Nations.
What are the General Assembly, Secretariat, and Security Council?
He led the Nationalists in China.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
Truman's domestic policies
What is the Fair Deal?
The names of the husband and wife who were convicted and executed for giving atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
This waterway was built and improved during the 1950s by the United States and Canada.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
In 1950, a conflict between United Nations peacekeeping forces and Communists began in this country.
What is Korea?
He led the Communist forces in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Policy of offering military aid to anti-Communist governments
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The policy that described America's intent in the late 1940s and the 1950s to stop the Soviets from overtaking more governments.
What is containment?
An order that could be procured from the courts to forbid a strike and force labor negotiations.
What is an injunction?
The program created to counter the growth of communism in Latin America.
What is the Alliance for Progress?
He was Stalin's successor.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Legislation Congress passed over Truman's veto in an attempt to limit the power of labor unions.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
He popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain," referring to the division of the free countries of Europe from the Communist-controlled lands.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Legislation used in the South to keep African-Americans segregated from whites.
What are Jim Crow laws?
With a divided Korea
How did the Korean War end?