Cold War
Congress would approve $13.3 billion for European recovery. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that allowed Europe to rebuild after World War 2.
Marshall Plan
Assistance provided to World War 2 Veterans
GI Bill
A mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe
NATO
Act of building up and creating deadly nuclear weapons
Arms Race
Act of preventing supplies and people from entering or leaving a specific area
Blockade
Truman asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece.
Truman Doctrine
Developers such as William Levitt (“Levittowns” in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass-production techniques to build modest, inexpensive tract houses there.
The Suburbs
A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact)
Leader of the USSR (Russia) during the Berlin Airlift.
Joseph Stalin
The generation born during the 1950s
Baby Boomers
Became a universal symbol of the Cold War. Seen as a clear divide between East and West Berlin.
The Berlin Wall
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. They were intended to serve several purposes: eliminate traffic congestion; make coast-to-coast transportation more efficient; and make it easy to get out of big cities in case of an atomic attack.
Interstate Highway Act
Organization that trained, armed, and transported 1300 Cubans to invade Cuba
CIA
This invention changes American culture, in 1946 there were 7,000 and by 1950 there were 50,000,000. It will go on to replace the radio as the primary source of home entertainment.
The Television
A state of being political hostility between countries without actually going to war
Cold War
Action taken by the US and Great Britain to deliver supplies to Berlin while it was encircled by the USSR
Berlin Airlift
Since its inception in the late 1940s, this has profoundly transformed American music and is now one of the most popular musical forms in the world. Its roots are in the delta blues of the south.
Rock & Roll
Leader of Cuba during the Cold War
Fidel Castro
They were a generation of artists, writers, intellectuals, and musicians centered in San Francisco that came of age in the 1950s and early 1960s. Rejecting the predominant values of American society,
The Beats, or Beatniks
He arrived on the scene just at the right time with a sound that was unique to most white teenagers, a mix of Southern blues, country, and gospel. He was the first rock and roll star.
Elvis Presley
The failed invasion of Cuba
Bay of Pigs
President of the US during the 1950s and passed the Interstate Highway Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The idea that a nuclear attack by one country would be met with nuclear retaliation resulting in both nations being destroyed
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
President of the United States during the Bay of Pigs Invasion
President John F. Kennedy
Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushev