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24 Cards in this Set
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-post WWII law which banned the closed shop, which required all workers at a job to join the union
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Taft-Hartley Act
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-Failed attempt of Unions at expanding into the south and west because:
-workers in these areas were scattered and hard to unite -they valued individualism and hard work, not groups trying to make it easier |
Operation dixie
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-provided federal funding to some 8 million veterans to go to college
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GI Billof Rights
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-book created to inform mothers on how to raise their children
-in response to the scattering of the American family: women could no longer get advise from their mothers |
The common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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-Soviet Union didn't like US because:
-It took 16 years to recognize them -US was slow to open the second front against Germany -US withdrew the lend-lease act from Russia in 1945 -US rejected Russia's request of $6 billion, but accepted Germany's of $4 billion |
US-Russian tensions
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-Established to propell world trade and regulate currency exchange rates
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International Monetary Fund
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-Created by the IMF
-gave loans to needy nations who were war ravaged or just poor |
World Bank
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-Updated Leage of Nations
-Set up Israel |
United Nations
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-policy created by George F. Kennan
-attempted not to kill communism where it already existed, but stop the spread of it |
Containment
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-gave $400 million to Greece and Turkey who were resisting Communist threats
-later expanded to offering aid to any country resisting communism |
Truman Doctrine
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-project to strengthen European economies to strengthen them against Communism
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Marshall Plan
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-reorganized the War Department, creating the CIA
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National Security Act
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-radio broadcast transmitted to Eastern Europe that were pro-American
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Voice of America
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-Defensive organization of western countries claiming that an attack on one was an attack on all
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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-The Soviet equivalent of NATO
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Warsaw Pact
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-Chinese communist leader, succeeding in overthrowing the nationalist government
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Mao Zedong
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-Board created to investigate the loyalty of millions of federal officials
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Loyalty Review Board
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-Senator who led the red hunt
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Senator Joseph McCarthy
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-Bill that Truman vetoed allowing the President to arrest and hold suspicious people during an internal security emergency
-congress overrided the veto |
MCCarran International Security Bill
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-Party of Dixiecrats, or southern democrats after WWII
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State's Rights Party
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-program designed to give money and technical help to underdeveloped countries who were vulnerable to communism
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Point Four
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-plan by Truman to make internal improvements
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Fair Deal
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-provided public housing in post WWII era
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Housing Act
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-action that quadrupled america's defense spending in 1950
-symbolized the amazing capability of US pulling something that big off |
NSC-68
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