APUSH chapter 37
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Taft Hartley act | forbade closed shops(closed to not in unions), made unions liable for damages and union leaders to take non communist oath |
| full employment act | gov promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power |
| GI bil of rights | 8 million former soldiers to vocational schools and colleges; also known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act |
| Levittown | post war suburb in Long Island; cookie cutter houses (cheap and identical) |
| baby boom | many families moved around country; new moms turned to Dr. Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care; also started when soldiers came home |
| white flight | whites abandoned inner-cities to suburbs; left blacks in cities and poor |
| yalta conference | Russia promised to enter war against Japan and free elections; shaped Cold War; Roosevelt, Churchil and Stalin |
| Bretton Woods | meeting of the new League of Nations set up IMP (International Monetary Fund) |
| international monetary Fund | set up by Allies to propel world trade and regulate currency exchange rates |
| World Bank | give loans to needy nations |
| Security Council | part of UN that delay conflict and war |
| Big Five powers | US, Britain, France, USSR, China |
| Nuremberg trials | Nazi leaders tried for crimes against humanity; everyone's rationale was that they were following orders |
| German occupation zones | Germany divided into 4 zones; US, Russia, Britain, and France each look over one zone; West Germany is democratic and East Germany is communist |
| iron curtain | free West Berlin in East Germany (Russian controlled) |
| Containment Policy | USSR was expansionist by nature but could be held in check by firm American containment |
| Truman Doctrine | made containment policy (stop communism anywhere it is expanding) official; 40 million dollars to aid Greece and Turkey |
| Marshall Plan | lend financial help to rebuild Europe; help establish EC |
| National Security Act | old war department replaced with department of defense; military reorganization |
| Voice of America | radio broadcast to be transmitted into Eastern Europe |
| NATO | alliance where attacking one meant attacking them all |
| Mao zedong | led communist forces in civil war against Chian kai shek's national gov |
| revolution in china | mao zedong and communists win |
| soviet a bomb | USSR successfully detonate an atomic bomb, ends America's nuclear monopoly; fission of heavy element (uranium) |
| H-bomb | hydrogen bomb; nuclear fission of hydrogen |
| Loyalty oath | people far communists in America; oaths swearing anti communism; especially in teachers |
| House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) | set out to investigate subversion |
| Alger Hiss | Nixon pursued this man and made himself a red hunter |
| Senator McCarthy | threw around wild accusations with little or no basis to them |
| McCarran Internal Security Bill | Truman vetoed this bill; allow president to arrest and hold suspicious persons during internal security emergency; congress passed it |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg | suspected of leaking US secrets to Russia; convicted and executed for espionage |
| election of 1948 | republicans nominate Dewey; Democrats wanted Eisenhower but he refused so Truman was chosen, caused a split |
| Korea/38th parallel | north and south Korea split (communist vs democrats) |
| NSC-68 | quadrupled America's defense spending; showed communist fear, limitless production possibilities of US |
| Ichon landing | McArthur's troops set up at Pusan did end around and hit behind enemy lines; North Koreans driven northward |
| Firing of McArthur | called for blockade and bombing of China and went public; washington didn't want it |
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