Key Terms Part 1
This foreign policy strategy by the US was focused on limited the expansion and influence of the Soviet Union and communism.
What is containment?
800,000 units of public housing projects were authorized by this law.
What is the Housing Act of 1949?
Syngman Rhee was the first democratically elected president of this country.
What is South Korea?
He was a young Senator from California who became the vice presidential running mate to Eisenhower.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The Fair Deal focused on these two issues.
What is regulating the economy and providing for the poor?
When the communists took over China, the Chinese nationalists fled here.
What is Taiwan?
This military alliance was formed in 1949 between the US, Canada, and Western European nations to counter any Soviet Union threat.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This metaphor was used to describe the division between communist Eastern European nations controlled by the Soviet Union and Western Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
He was the first dictator of North Korea.
Who is Kim Il-Sung?
He was the communist leader that established the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Who is Mao Zedong?
This group of veterans did not benefit from the GI Bill.
Who are African Americans?
(You need to know why)
McArthur spoke out against Truman after Truman made this decision.
What is to seek peace in Korea?
The National Security Act of 1947 created this federal agency.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
This program was created to give aid in order to rebuild European nations in the wake of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This scientist was charged with treason and executed for giving information to the Soviet Union on how to construct an atomic bomb.
Who is Julius Rosenberg?
This member of Congress sponsored multiple women's rights bills that all failed to pass and would later be defeated by Richard Nixon.
Who is Helen Douglas?
Mendez v Westminster was the first Supreme Court case to strike down this in any segment of society.
What is segregation?
Today, the demilitarized zone in Korea is located along this imaginary line.
What is the 38th parallel?
This Congressional committee investigated suspected communists within the government.
What is the House Un-American Committee (HUAC)?
The Truman Doctrine was first used to aid democracy in these two nations.
What are Greece and Turkey?
This WWII veteran was denied the right to vote and would become a civil rights leader before being assassinated in 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers?
Who is Dean Acheson?
Joseph McCarthy claimed to know of over 200 communist working here.
What is the Department of State?
This was the main reason Truman was advised to be friendly to Middle Eastern countries.
What is access to oil?
This top secret government report insisted American survival was dependent on a massive buildup of American defenses.
What is NSC 68?
The Taft-Hartley Act, which was passed over a veto by Truman, restricted the power of these groups.
What are labor unions?
This Secretary of Commerce was fired by Truman for suggesting a compromise with the Soviet Union.
Who is Henry Wallace?
This American diplomat is credited with creating the United States policy toward the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War.
Who is George Kennan?
This political party formed in 1948 to safeguard segregation.
Who are the Dixiecrats (or States' Rights Democrats)?
This is one of the three reasons the United States adopted a policy of preventing the spread of communism.
What is:
1. The US believed communism would fail on its own
2. A more aggressive policy could lead to nuclear war
3. Establishing democracies would benefit the US economically