c0ol d war Flashcards
22nd amendment
preventing re-election > 2 times
tart-hartley act
truman felt it was a slave labor bill
- outlawed close shop
- rtw laws
- outlaw secondary boycotts
- 80 day cooling period for strike
bill lewitt
devised ways to build thousands of homes
- suburban housing, construction boom
- moving into middle class
truman afr am rights
- demanded change
- committee on civil rights
- advocated for de-desgregation dinar med forces and federal areas
sunbelt
Florida-cali offered warmer climates, lower taxes, economic chances
80th congress
under republican control
cominform
agency to coordinate communism globally
truman doctrine applied to…
turkey (dardanelles strait)
greece (civil war)
yalta conf…
splits Germany into 2
capitalist federal republic of germany
communist German democratic republic
UN
self determination, prevent war
atomic energy commission
Baruch plan (regulate nukes, eliminate atomics) rejected
responses to nuclear proliferation war
- dep of defense coordinates all army forces
- nsc (national security council) – foreign policy
- cia spies
- federal civil defense admin
employment act 1946
created council of economic advisors to help with national health insurance and increasing wages
mccarran stuff
mccarran internal security act: (1) cant support totalitarian govt (2) restrict trade and travel of communists (3) detention camps for subversives
mccarran Walter act - reaffirmed quota system
declaration of conscience
Margaret smith
- right o criticise, hold unpopular b beliefs, protest, and have independent thought
covert action
cia overthrew iranian govt to bring in Reza Pahlavi to sell them good oil prices and buy arms
cia overthrew leftist governments and supported dictators to this extent
Suez crisis
Egypt asks for funds to build dam, us refuses bc Egypt doesn’t approve Israel
- they seized Suez canal
- gb f and Israel invaded back
- e condemned
new soviet leaders
nikolai bulgannin (new soviet primer)
nikita khruschev (new soviet leader)
Hungarian revolt
uprising in Hungary overthrew Moscow gov and they tried to pull out of Warsaw pact
Khrushchev sent Kremlin to fight, us didn’t intervene
sputnik I & II
ussr launches 2 satellites
congress: national defense and education act (NDEA) - stem
NASA
