Ch. 24-27

Question 1

A massive rise in the birth rate from 1946-1964

Answer 1

Baby boom

Question 2

Domestic government program under the Truman administration, intended to increase aid to science and public education, subsidize medical insurance, and encourage job creation and home building

Answer 2

Fair deal

Question 3

Trials of major nazi war criminals held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII

Answer 3

Nuremberg Trials

Question 4

International organization formed post-WWII as a peacekeeeping body

Answer 4

Untied nations

Question 5

Hostility between US and USSR, time of tension and intense competition that tried to avoid direct military conflict 1950-80s

Answer 5

Cold War

Question 6

Term used by Winston Churchill to describe that separation of communist Eastern Europe and free nations of Western Europe

Answer 6

Iron curtain

Question 7

Conflict from 1950-53 between communist and non-communists over who would control South Korea

Answer 7

Korean War

Question 8

Us commander chosen to command UN forces during Korean War, later dismissed from the US military due to harshness

Answer 8

General Douglas MacArthur