Chapter 17: U.S During WW II
The Japanese had attacked _____ with the expectations that once Americans had experienced Japan's Power.
Pearl Harbor
George F. Kennan, an American diplomat in Moscow, proposed a policy of ________.
containment
To help ease veterans’ return to civilian life, Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, or the ______________.
GI Bill of Rights,
_________ ________ became the 35th president of the United States on a crisp and sparkling day in January 1961.
John F. Kennedy
Marshall’s most stunning victory came on May 17, 1954, in the case known as _________________ _____________________.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.
George Marshall
For two decades, Chinese Communists had struggled against the nationalist government of ________.
Chiang Kai-shek
homes in small residential communities surrounding cities, called _______.
suburbs
President Eisenhower had cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba because of a revolutionary leader named ________ _______.
Fidel Castro.
______ _______ a seamstress and an NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the “colored” section of a Montgomery bus.
Rosa Parks
General _____ unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy
Omar Bradley
North Korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea. The conflict that followed became known as the ___________.
Korean War
A conglomerate is a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
conglomerates
LBJ and Congress changed Social Security by establishing Medicare and _______.
Medicaid
_______________ ________ ________ is An ordained minister since 1948,
Martin Luther King, Jr
the Allies agreed that the defeat of the ____ was their first priority
Nazis
Other agencies investigated possible Communist influence, both inside and outside the U.S. government. The most famous of these was the _________________ _________ ________.
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
a company that offers similar products or services in many locations.
franchise
_________ provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older.
Medicare
After the bus boycott ended, King joined with ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957 to found the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
The ____ or the suicide-plane, attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allied ships
kamikaze
By the time both countries had the H-bomb, _______ __________ __________ was president. His secretary of state was______ _______ _______.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
beat movement
____________ extended health insurance to welfare recipients.
Medicaid
Air Force veteran ______ ___________ won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi,
James Meredith