cold war part 1 terms

Question 1

(NSC-68) national security council memorandum number 68: national security council recommendation to quadruple … and rapidly expand peacetime … to address …. it reflected a new … of american foreign policy, but the huge costs of rearmament were not expected to interfere with what seemed like the limitless possibilities of postwar prosperity

Answer 1

defense spending; armed forces; cold war tensions; militarization;

Question 2

(fair deal) president truman’s extensive…introduced in his 1949 message to congress. republicans and southern democrats kept much of his vision from being enacted, except for …., providing for more …, and extending … to many more …. under the ….

Answer 2

social program; raising the minimum wage; public housing; old-age insurance; beneficiaries; social security act

Question 3

(reinhold niebuhr): protestant …, portrayed the cold war as a more general struggle between the forces of … he argued that men such as Hitler and Stalin were “children of …” who needed to be defeated, despite the means

Answer 3

clergyman; good and evil; darkness

Question 4

(benjamin spock) a … who authored …, which discussed …

Answer 4

doctor; the common sense book of baby and child care; parenting