Chapter 13
True/False
The Marshall Plan provided foreign aid to help rebuild Europe, including to the European Axis countries.
False
This is a trick question. The Marshall Plan provided aid to European Axis countries that were aligned with the west after WW2 (West Germany and Italy), but not to East Germany (aligned with the Soviet Union).
True/False
President Truman's agenda was called the 'New Deal'
False
True/False
The Presidential election of 1960 was one of the closest elections in US history.
True
NATO stands for the __________________________.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A __________ is a constitution, or other legal document.
Charter
Meetings in ___________, Dumbarton Oaks, and _________ all helped Allied leaders plan for life after WW2.
Breton Woods and Yalta
_____________________ became a bigger problem in America between 1948 and 1953.
juvenile delinquency
_____________ was the name of the American space program that put the first American in space.
Mercury
The Berlin Wall kept East Germans from freely entering _______________.
West Berlin
A business requiring union membership to be an employee is called a ___________________
union shop
The _________________________ investigated the claim that there were Communists serving in the US State Department.
House Un-American Activity Committee
The ________________ Act took away many union benefits that had been created by New Deal legislation.
Taft-Hartley Act
The _____________________ was the imaginary boundary that separated Soviet dominated countries from the rest of Europe.
Iron Curtain
Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba could strike the ________ of the United States.
majority
John Glenn is closely associated with this Cold War competition.
The Space Race
The Soviet Union crushed an uprising in ___________ in 1956.
Hungary
A termination policy withdrew recognition of __________ as legal entities and made them subject to American laws.
Native Americans
________________ was a health insurance program designed to help people living below the poverty line.
Medicaid
In Baker v Carr 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could force states to redraw _________.
electoral districts
Reapportionment is used to define political districts based on changes in _________.
population
There are five permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council. Name them.
China, France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom and United States
The textbook mentioned 10 groups that did not experience the affluence of the 1950's American economy. Five were minority groups, and five were more specific groups that were unable to grow out of the poverty they were already experiencing. Name one of the five more specific groups.
People living in Appalachia, single mothers, the elderly, the inner city poor, and the rural poor.
Over 60 Great Society programs could be categorized in four general categories. Name them.
Health and Welfare
Education
The War on Poverty
Consumer and Environmental Protections
The ____________________ in America declined dramatically between 1960 and 1970.
poverty rate
The ____________________ is a cultural separation between parents and their children
Generation Gap