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Action taken at the San Francisco Conference
What is the UN?
100
This called for the nations of Europe to draw up a program for economic recovery from the war in order to receive economic support from the US
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
Writers, actors, directors and producers who were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about communism
What is the Hollywood Ten?
100
Another name for the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
100
An independent agency for space exploratin created in response to the launching of Sputnik
What is NASA?
200
Truman's first meeting with Stalin
What is the Potsdam Conference?
200
An alliance based on "an armed attack against one or more...shall be considred an attack against all."
What is NATO?
200
Circulated among employers, containing the names of persons who should not be hired
What is a blacklist?
200
This theoretically allowed for the evacuation of major cities in the event of nuclera attack
What is the Federal Aid Highway Act or the Interstate Highway Act?
200
Designed to improve science & math instruction in schools
What is the NDEA (National Defense Education act)?
300
Countries Stalin wanted to establish that would be subject to Soviet domination and serve as a buffer zone against (German) attacks
What are satellite nations?
300
The term that refers to what President Eisenhower warned against in his Farewell Address
What is a military-industrial complex?
300
A high ranking state Department official accused of being a former Communist but convicted of lying to a federal grand jury and went to prison
Who is Alger Hiss?
300
Written by Betty Friedan criticizing the 1950's ideal of womanhood
What is The Feminine Mystique?
300
Its purpose was to reduce management-labor disputes & reduce unfair labor practices; passed on Truman's veto
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
400
The principle of mutual military assistance that NATO is based on
What is collective security?
400
The Soviet's response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
A couple convicted of espionage & executed in 1953
Who were the Rosenbergs?
400
This event started the Civil Rights Movement (1955)
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
Name for suburban developments that provided inexpensive houses in the1950s
What are Levittowns?
500
The most difficult issue discussed at Yalta
What is Poland?
500
A loyalty program created by Congress to investigate disloyalty within government agencies and the Hollywood movie industry
What is the HUAC (House UnAmerican Activities Committee)?
500
This led to the fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy
What is claiming that the US Army was full of Communists?
500
Civil Rights organization (1957) that shifted the focus of the civil rights movement to the South
What is SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)?
500
19 nations met in Switzerland and decided to divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel in 1954
What are the Geneva Accords?