Chapter 27; The Cold War
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alger Hiss(p. 772) | -Whittaker Chambers (former communist) accused him of selling documents to Soviet Union -Protected by espionage and Nixon |
| Containment (p. 761) | -Truman policy -Instead of trying to fight and completely eliminate communism, stop it from spreading |
| Douglas McArthur (p. 769) | -Appointed to command American UNITED NATIONS operations in Korea -given permission to pursue communists into their own territory |
| Fair Deal (p. 766) | -Expansion of Social Security benefits: raising minimum wage to 65ยข -Full employment through aggressive use of federal spending -Fair Employment Practices Act: public housing and slum clearance -Environmental and public works planning -Scientific research -Federal aid for St. Lawrence Seaway -Nationalization of atomic energy -National health insurance -Congress tried to chip away at Fair Deal |
| George F. Kenman (p. 764) | -Truman Doctrine speech -Some distinctions between areas of vital interest to US and areas of less importance o the nations foreign policy and called on America to share the tureen of containment with its allies |
| House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (p. 772) | -1947 -Widely publicized investigations to prove that the government had tolerate communist subversion -Hollywood -Whittaker Chambers, Hiss Alger |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (p. 772) | -Members of communist party whom the Federalists claimed to be masterminds of conspiracy -Orchestrated espionage -Sentenced to death along with sympathizers |
| Marshall Plan (p. 762) | -Gave money and arms to European nations to payoff debts and fit communism -Berlin wall |
| National Security Act (p. 763) | -1974 -Oversee foreign and military policy |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (p. 763) | -Alliance pact of North America -If someone attacked one of the nations, all of the others would join them |
| NSC-86 (p. 764) | -1950 -Shift in American position (Isolationist>>>interventionist) -Containment doctrine |
| Syngman Rhee (p. 769) | -Leader that America nominated after WWII. Anti communist but only slightly democratic. |
| Taft-Hartley Act (p. 766) | -Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 -Made closed shops illegal |
| Thomas E. Dewey (p. 767) | -Ran against Eisenhower -Avoided antagonizing anyone |
| Truman Doctrine (p. 758) | -Truman would help Greece and Turkey from falling into communism |
| United Nations (p. 758) | -Proposed during Yalta -General Assembly, Security Council -25 April 1945 |
| Warsaw Pact (p. 763) | -Socialist version of NATO |
| Yalta Conference (p. 758) | -Meeting between FDR, Winston Churchill, Stalin (US, Britain, Russia) -Disagreements on the status of the post war world -Stalin wanted to make an empire of Eastern Europe but Britain and US disagreed, and Stalin proceeded to y anyway |
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