Lesson 1
A conference at which the Big Three made important decisions about the future of European government
What was the Yalta Confrence?
Communist leader of China
Who was Mao Zedong?
A significant increase in the number of babies born
What was the baby boom?
The policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism
What was the Truman Doctrine?
A November 1945 tribunal that put high-ranking Nazis on trial
What were the Nuremberg trials?
The line that divides North and South Korea?
What was the 38th parallel?
Southern and western states that offered a warm climate year round and low tax rates
What is the Sun Belt?
Under this plan, Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1946 and 1952
What was the Marshall Plan?
What is the United Nations?
Wisconsin senator who contributed to fears in the early 1950s by claiming Communists were working inside the State Department
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A plan to improve life in the cities
What is an urban renewal program?
Members of this treaty promised to protect each other if attacked
What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Powerful countries who influenced events in their regions of the world
What are superpowers?
a weapon far more powerful than the atomic bombs used in World War II
What are hydrogen bombs?
Young people known as beatniks who criticized society with unusual writing styles and rebellious behavior.
Who were beats?
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act
Offered veterans money for school as well as loans for homes, farms, and businesses
What was the GI Bill of Rights?
Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world
What is containment?
When both the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to build more and more weapons
What was the arms race?
The Soviet satellite that was the world's first artificial satellite.
What was Sputnik?
Truman's domestic program that included a higher minimum wage, the creation of a national health insurance plan for all Americans, an expanded Social Security services for the elderly
What was the Fair Deal?