chapter 23 Flashcards
what event caused stalin to blockade west berlin in 1949
allied attempts to unify west germany
the objective of the taft-hartley act was to
weaken unions
frozen chosin was to
brave fight near a reservoir where american soldiers were attacked by the Chinese
this phrase best describes postwar society in America
consumer culture
the truman doctrine was developed when the soviets attempted to gain control of greece and
turkey
the national security act created all of the following except the
federal bureau investigation
permanent members of this agency have veto power
security council
the location of the most dramatic standoff over the desegregation of public schools
little rock ,Arkansas
term coined to describe accusations based on lies distortion and innuendo
McCarthyism
enduring transportation program Eisenhower instituted
interstate highway system
National leader in China
chiang Keiashek
communist leader in China
Mao Zedong
commander of the UN military forces in Korea
Doaglas Macarthur
Anti-communist leader in South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
communist leader in North vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
east Germany begin building this in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West
berlin wall
government organization set forth by John Kennedy that was formed to send skilled volunteers overseas to help under-devoloped nations
peace corps
1961 operation against communist cuba that was a disaster
bay of pigs
weapon developed by the united states in 1952 was far more powerful than the atomic bomb
hydrogen bomb
the trails of Nazi was criminals
numremberg trails
nickname that was given to the conservation southern democrats who joined the state’s rights party in 1948 and supported strom thurman
dixiecrats
the name for a widespread fear of communsim that occured after WW1 and after WW2
red scare
the large civil rights protest where Martin Luther King gave his “I have dream “ speech
march on washington
the leader of the soviet union during the cuban missile crisis
nikkita khrushev
