Mrs. Hagerman Social Studies Flashcards
Baby boom
The significant rise in the amount of babies born from 1945-1960
Sunbelt
Southern and western states that offer warm climate all year
Elvis
A famous rock ‘n’ roll star
Jonas Salk
A doctor who invented a vaccine for polio
Beats or beatniks
Young people who acted rebellious and wrote strangely
Mao Zedong
Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the peoples republic of china
Redscare
A radio broadcast about North Korea invading South Korea on June 26,1950
Sputnik
The worlds first artificial satellite launched into orbit by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 as part of the soviet space program
Arms Race
A competition between nations for superiority and the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the U.S. and former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Cold War
An ongoing political rivalry between the United States, Soviet Union, and there respective allies that developed after WW2.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
United Nations
An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts.
Y’all’s conference
Allied leaders known as the big three—Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in the Soviet city of Yalta to discuss plans for peace.
Marshal Plan
Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1948 and 1952.
Truman Doctrine
A policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism.
SDS
a society of college students where the members protested against the draft, as well as companies that made weapons used in Vietnam.
Hippies
members of a culture who emphasizes individual freedom, nonviolence, and community sharing.
Richard M. Nixon
a president that promised to restore order to American societ and bring “peace with honer,” but instead expanded the war by approving having bomb raids on Cambodia and Laos and sent troops to Cambodia to attack communist bases.
Henry Kissinger
He was the national security advisor that helped Nixon create the Vietnamization plan.
Vietnamization
a plan to pull U.S. troops from Vietnam and have the south Vietnamese army take over all the fighting.
26th amendment
frederal voting age was changed from 21 to 18.
War Powers Act
requirement that the president must have congressional approval before committing U.S. troops to an armed struggle.
