Postwar Growth
Postwar Politics
Containment in Europe
Containment in Asia
The Second Red Scare
100
This population explosion between 1945 and 1960 was a sign of the basic confidence of the postwar era.
What is Baby Boom
100
this party controlled the 80th Congress, resulting in several clashes with Truman over legislation.
What is the Republicans.
100
This man came up with the American foreign policy of vigilante "containment" of Soviet influences.
What is George Kennan
100
The Chinese Civil War was fought by these two sides led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong.
What is the Nationalists and Communists
100
This Wisconsin Senator was one of the biggest contributors to the Red Scare by making accusations that communists had infiltrated the federal government.
What is Joseph McCarthy
200
The growth of postwar suburban living of the middle class was embodied by this suburban area in Long Island, New York.
What is Levittown
200
Truman made huge progress in the advancement of civil rights by desegregating this federal institution.
What is The Armed Forces
200
This event was a response to Russia cutting off all western access to the capital of Germany that was subdivided into four occupation zones.
What is the Berlin Airlift
200
This military official oversaw Japanese reconstruction and the U.N. forces during the Korean War before being discharged after criticizing Truman's tactics in Korea.
What is General Douglass McArthur
200
This couple was found guilty and executed for leaking nuclear secrets to the Soviets in a highly controversial trial.
What is the Rosenburgs
300
This legislation helped with the integration of returning veterans to a peaceful economy.
What is The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, or "G.I. Bill"
300
J. Strom Thurmond was the presidential candidate for this offshoot of the Democratic party that disagreed with Truman's support of civil rights.
What is the Dixiecrats or States' Rights Party
300
This plan to give Europe $12 billion in aid for it's economic recovery halted the threat of Communist influence in western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan
300
This was the agreed border between North and South Korea after the armistice to end the war.
What is the 38th Parallel
300
This Congressional committee investigated government officials and organizations like the Boy Scouts and Hollywood for Communist influences and sympathizers.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
400
Many returning G.I.s and their families were enticed to move to the Sunbelt region of the U.S. because of these motives. (Must list at least 2 reasons)
What is war climate, lower taxes and economic opportunity in the defense industry.
400
This is the name of Truman's domestic reform program that called for national healthcare insurance, aid for education, civil rights legislation and a new farm program, but was largely blocked by a conservative Congress.
What is the Fair Deal
400
This containment plan gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to halt growing Communist influences and pledged assistance to any people struggling against a totalitarian regime.
What is the Truman Doctrine
400
After losing the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalists relocated to the island of the Chinese coast.
What is Taiwan
400
This prominent State Department official was accused of giving secret documents to the Soviets and his subsequent trial and conviction contributed to the communist hysteria.
What is Alger Hiss
500
the G.I. Bill assisted returning veterans by providing them with these benefits (2).
What is college opportunities and federal loans to buy houses and start businesses.
500
This legislation was a major blow for labor unions by outlawing all-union (closed) shops and secondary boycotts in support of another labor union, as well as a presidentially invoked "cooling off" period before crippling strikes began.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act
500
This trans-Atlantic military alliance formed between the U.S., Canada and 10 Western European countries against a Soviet attack was countered by the Warsaw Pact of Eastern Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
500
This secret Cold War report advocated for quadrupling the government's defense spending, forming alliances with non-Communist countries around the world and convincing the public that that arms build-up was necessary for American defense.
What is NSC-68
500
This legislation was used to convict leaders of the American Communist Party in Dennis et al. v. United States and made it illegal to advocate or teach the overthrow of the government.
What is the Smith Act