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Hegemony |
domiance over others |
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Yalu River |
Chinese border |
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Yalta Conference |
US and Eng. agreed to recognize the Soviet "sphere of influence" w/ some conditions |
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Election 1952 |
Dem = Stevenson, Rep = Eisenhower, Rep wins |
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Molotov |
Soviet foreign minister |
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J. F. Dulles |
Eisenhower's Sec of state |
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Baruch Plan |
US proposed system of international control that would preserve American monopoly |
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Khruschev |
Stalin's successor, called for peaceful coexistance b/w communists and capalists |
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Containment |
designed to prevent Soviet expansion |
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George Kennan |
expressed the policy of containment in a 8,000 word cable, "the long telegram" |
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ICBM |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles |
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George Marshall |
came up w/ the Marshall plan - European Recovery Program |
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DEW Line |
Distant Early Warning Line |
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Truman Doctrine |
requested large scale military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey |
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SEATO |
Souteast Asia Treaty Organization |
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Berlin Airlift |
for nearly a year, US and Eng. piolots who had previously dropped bombs, delivered 2.5 mil tons of food and fuel |
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CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
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NSC |
National Security Council |
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Marshall Plan |
gave 12 billion to reconstruct Europe |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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Gr. Democratic Republic |
East Germany |
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Federal Republic of Germany |
West Germany |
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Warsaw Pact |
military alliance for Eastern Europe |
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Monnet |
helped oversee dispersion of Marshall Plan funds |
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D. MacArthur |
helped pave the way for Japanese sovereignty |
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Taiwan |
US recognized the exiled Nationalistic government there |
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Mao Zedong/ Tse Tung |
led Communists forces |
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Dean Acheson |
Sec of State |
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Zhou Enlai (Chou En Lai) |
led communist forces |
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38th Parallel |
N Korean launched a suprise attack across that line |
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Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai Shek) |
leader of conservative Nationalist forces |
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Pusan |
where the UN staged a breakout |
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Inchon |
where MacArthur launched a suprise attack |
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Seoul |
capital of S Korea |
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Zionism |
Jewish nationalistic movement |
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Nasser |
came to power in Egypt in 1954 |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
stated that American forces will assist any nation in the Mid East |
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Taft-Hartley Act |
rollback of several provisions of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act |
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Earl Warren |
gov of CA |
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Section 14b of Taft Hartley Act |
allowed states to pass laws that took away power of unions |
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Election 1948 |
Dem = Truman, Rep = Dewey, Dem won |
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Henry Wallace |
ran as candidate for Progressive Party, fired by Truman |
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Strom Thurmond |
gov. of SC |
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H. Humphrey |
northern liberal that wanted Taft Hartley act repelled |
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Fair Deal |
created by Truman |
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McCarthy |
vocal anti-communist |
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McCarthism |
campaing of domestic repression of Communism in America |
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HUAC |
House Committee on Un American Activities |
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"Fellow Traveler" |
communists, (left winged) |
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Alger Hiss |
investicated by HUAC |
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Whitaker Chambers |
former Communist |
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Nixon |
Eisenhower's VP |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
convicted of passing attomic secrets to the Soviots, executed in 1953 |
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Aldei Stevenson |
ran against Eisenhower in 1952 & 1956 |
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Sputnik |
1st satelite launched by Soviet Union |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
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HEW |
Health, Education, and Welfare |
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Jakie Robinson |
baseball player for Brooklyn Dodgers |
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Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka |
Supreme court sided w/ Marshall, who fought against segregation |
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Little Rock |
Arkansas, school board created a disegregation plan |
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Faubus |
gov of Arkansas, defied the court order to desegregate |
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Rosa Parks |
arrested for violating segregation laws |
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Montgomery |
where Rosa Parks lived |
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SCLC |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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MAD |
Mutually Assured Destruction |
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U - 2 |
American spy plane, one was shot down by the Soviets |
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Francis Gary Powers |
pilot of U-2, captured and imprisoned by the Soviets |
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N. Khruschev |
got in the "kitchen debate" w/ Nixon |
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New Frontier |
JFK's program to get America moving again |
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Oligopolies |
a few large corporations control the entire economy |
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22nd Amendment |
no person can serve more than 2 terms |
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Conglomerates |
firms in diff industries are bought and combined into a single large firm |
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Election 1960 |
R = Nixon, D = JFK, Dem wins |
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Bretton Woods |
resulted in IMF and World Bank |
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Green Berets |
US Army Special Forces |
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IMF |
International Monetery Fund |
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Peace Corps |
a New Frontier program |
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GATT |
General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade |
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Batista |
overthrown by Castro |
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FHA |
Federal Housing Administration |
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Bay of Pigs |
where US attempted to crush Castro's troops and failed |
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CIO |
Congress of Industrial Nations |
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Alan Shepard |
first American in space |
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John Glenn |
manned the first space mission to orbit the earth |
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"Bull" Connor |
used violence to break up protests lead by MLK |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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Medgar Evers |
was killed in his driveway in Jackson |
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SNCC |
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee |
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L.H. Oswald |
accused of killing JFK |
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N. V. Peale |
wrote "the Power of Positive Thinking" |
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OEO |
The Office of Economic Opportunity |
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Billy Graham |
a christian who used technology to spread the gospel |
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VISTA |
modeled by the peace corps |
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Medicare |
covered every old person eligeble for social security |
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Great Society |
a burst of legislation that marked the high tide of postwar liberalism |
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Betty Friedan |
named the 'feminine mystique' |
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Shelly vs. Kraema |
supreme court ruled that restrictive covenants were illegal |
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Voting Rights Act (1965) |
outlawed literacy test for votin |
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Sun Belt |
FL, TX, CA |
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Election 1964 |
D = Johnson, R = Miller, Dem win |
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Autosclerosis |
can result in hearing loss |
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Alan Freed |
a Cleveland DJ |
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Jackson Pollock |
leader of abstract expression |
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Allen Ginsberg |
poet who wrote "Howl" |
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Jack Kerovak |
wrote "On the Road" |
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Chuck Berry |
a black musician |
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Graceland |
Elvis' home in Memphis |
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Bracero Program |
brought half a million Mexican workers to US in 1959 |
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"operation wetback" |
feds deported about 4 mil Mexicans during the 1953 recession |
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M. Harrington |
a critic that noticed that many Americans remained in poverty |