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The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945.
Harry S. Truman
An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
It called for an increase in the US conventional and nuclear forces to carry out the policy of containment.
NSC-68
34th U.S. President He Was An American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This set precedent for many important things such as the hippies and anti-war movement.
The Beats
The message written by George Kennan in 1946 to Truman advising him to contain Communist expansion.
The Long Telegram
The act created many of the institutions that Presidents found useful when formulating and implementing foreign policy, including the National Security Council (NSC).
National Security Act
The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
McCarthyism
Promise to curb federal government and restore state and local government authority, spearheaded by President Eisenhower.
Moderate Republicanism
1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Brown v. Board of Education
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey.
The Truman Doctrine
It also prohibited secondary boycotts and established that the President has power to issue injunctions in strikes that endangered national health & safety ("cooling off" period).
Taft-Hartley Act
1950 Act passed over Truman's veto; made it unlawful to advocate or support the establishment of a totalitarian government.
McCarran Internal Security Act
The act passed by the US Congress in 1956 that planned and funded 90% the construction of the nation's interstate highway system
Federal-Aid Highway Act
Policy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. on February 24, 1956 to unite other white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies to prevent public school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954.
Massive Resistance
It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.
The Marshall Plan
On April 15, 1947, he broke the decades-old "color line" of Major League Baseball when he appeared on the field for the National League Brooklyn Dodgers in a game against the Boston Braves.
Jackie Robinson
A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury
Alger Hiss
Also known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 gave money to veterans to study in colleges, universities, gave medical treatment, loans to buy a house or farm or start a new business.
GI Bill of Rights
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913).
Rosa Parks
In June 1948, the Soviet Union suddenly blocked all ground traffic into West Berlin, which was located entirely within the Russian zone of occupation in Germany.
Berlin Airlift
An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment.
The Fair Deal
It was an important development in the Cold War because it was the first time that the two superpowers the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a proxy war in a third country.
The Korean War
As the largest generational group in U.S. history (until the millennial generation slightly surpassed them), baby boomers have had—and continue to have—a significant impact on the economy.
Baby Boom
He was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.