General
Look at the charts on p. 389, what can you determine about live births and personal income between 1945 and 1960? Did they both decrease, both increase, births increased but income decreased, or births decreased and income increased? ________________________________
both increased
Major gains early on by the UN forces in Korea were undermined when ______________ sent hundreds of thousands of troops to join the ______________ ______________ army.
China; North Korean
Some social critics complained that suburban life was too heavily based on ____________________ ________________.
The United States joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada, to form the ______________ ___________________ _______________ __________________________.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.)
Some suburban communities refused to sell homes to ______________ families.
black
The ____ ____ __________ ____ ______________ offered veterans money for school, loans for houses, farms, and businesses.
G.I. Bill of Rights
American scientists tested the first ___________________ _____________ in the South Pacific in 1952.
hydrogen bomb
In 1950, Senator ________________ __________________ claimed to know of Communists who were aiding the Soviet Union from inside the U.S. State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
Some ______________________ did not support Truman in the 1948 presidential election because of his support for civil rights laws.
Democrats
In the 1950s, many people moved to the __________ __________, where tax rates were often low.
Sun Belt
A new _________ ______________ swept America in the 1940s and 1950s when Americans again became preoccupied with fear of Communists.
Red Scare
The 1952 novel ___________________ __________ focused on how African Americans felt left out by American Society.
Invisible Man
Some American women were discouraged during the postwar years because society seemed to assume that a woman’s principal role was as a ____________ and _______________.
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched ________________, the world’s first artificial satellite.
Sputnik
President Truman sent U.S. military forces to South Korea to give South Korean troops to ______________ and _________________.
cover and support
In 1946, U.S. _________ helped the Greek army defeat the Communist rebels and protected Turkey from Soviet expansion.
aid
During the 1950s, musicians such as Elvis Presley helped ___________ n’ _________ become popular.
rock n' roll
The term ____________ ___________ came to be used to describe the struggle for global power between the ______________ ______________ and the ______________ ______________.
Cold War; United States; Soviet Union
One of the first decisions made by the United Nations was to divide ___________________ into separate ___________ and _______________ states.
Palestine; Arab; Jewish
The original purpose of the United Nations was ________________ _______________________.
conflict resolution
President Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the first U.S. delegates to the _______________ _______________.
United Nations
A crisis involving the ______________ ______________, which began when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt, ended with a U.S.-Soviet agreement to condemn the invasion.
Suez Canal
The new foreign policy the United States developed to deal with the Cold War was based on the goal of ________________________.
containment
Dwight D. Eisenhower said the first task of his administration would be to end the _____________ ________.
Korean War
In the 1950s, the federal government began a/an ______________ ________________ ________________ mainly to improve city services and urban housing.
urban renewal program