Cold War
Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Officially known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, provided many benefits to veterans of World War II. It established veterans' hospitals, provided for vocational rehabilitation, made low-interest mortgages available, and granted stipends covering tuition and living expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools.
What was the GI Bill?
A mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe
What was The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
She wrote the ground breaking book The Feminine Mystique which galvanized the second wave of feminism in the US in the 1960s
Who was Betty Freidan?
Truman asked Congress for $400 million specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece. He told Congress: "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures . . .
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This invention helped to revolutionize the American South and increase population after World War II.
What was air conditioning?
A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
An undistinguished legislator, he became infamous because of his unsubstantiated but politically popular charges that the government was infiltrated with communist agents, he earned the dubious distinction of having his name become synonymous with character assassination and guilt by association for political gain
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
in July 1947, George F. Kennan defined the central goal of U.S. foreign policy during the cold war verse communism:
What was containment?
Developers such as William Levitt (“Levittowns” in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modest, inexpensive tract houses here.
What was the Suburbs?
This invention changed American culture. In 1946 there was 7,000 and by 1950 there was 50,000,000. It will go on to replace the radio as the primary source of home entertainment.
What was the Television?
These American citizens were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
Who was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
In 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, it would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive the former Allies out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. What was this event called?
What was Berlin Blockade/Airlift?
They were a generation of artists, writers, intellectuals, and musicians centered in San Francisco that came of age in the 1950's and early 1960's. Rejecting the predominant values of American society,
Who were The Beats, or Beatniks?
He arrived on the scene just at the right time with a sound that was unique to most white teenagers, a mix of Southern blues, country, and gospel. He was the first rock and roll star.
Who was Elvis Presley ?
The concept that goods are designed to stop working so consumers have to buy new.
What is planned obsolescence?
With the launch of the 1st satellite into space, the US responded by creating _________.
What was National Aeronautics and Space Act, the creation of NASA?
leader of US military forces in the Pacific during WWII and the Korean War.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?