Roots
True or False: NATO was established by the United States and other Western democracies.
True
What term is used when prices rise faster than wages?
inflations
What is the capital of South Korea?
Seoul
What is a term that means greater wealth?
affluence
What did President Truman threaten to do to the striking miners and railroad workers?
Draft them
True or False: Stalin kept his promise to hold elections in occupied Eastern Europe.
False
After the war, industries had to shift from producing war materials to making which product?
consumer products
What is a demilitarized zone?
a region with no military forces
More than 900,000 U.S. household had what by 1949?
Television sets
Which industry's decline plunged thousands of Appalachian people into desperate poverty?
coal
One of Harry S. Truman's first decisions as president was to go ahead with the meeting to form the what?
United Nations
After the 1948 election, Truman reintroduced his Fair Deal legislation because which political party regained control of the House and Senate?
Democats
What did the agreement ending the Korean War create?
a demilitarized zone
True or False: Closed shop is an agreement under which a business owner hires only non-union members.
False
Marshall Plan
Truman took serious steps to improve the civil rights of which group of people?
What became a new goal for the war after the North Koreans were pushed back?
Democratic Korea
The United States and the Soviet Union met to ease Cold War tensions at which location?
Geneva, Switzerland
What was the phrase used for the departure of whites from cities to the suburbs?
White flight
Which region did both Jews and Arabs claim?
Palestine
What was another name for the States' Rights Democratic Party?
Dixiecrats
The original goal of the UN forces in Korea was to push the North Koreans back across which parallel?
38th parallel
What was the name of the world's first artificial satellite?
Sputnik
What was the duration of the stalemate at the 38th parallel?
almost 2 years