Terms 191-200

Question 1

Yalta Conference

Answer 1

War time conference attended by the ‘big three’: Stalin, Churchill, and FDR. It called for the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany

Question 2

Containment

Answer 2

US policy toward Communism by George Kennan

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

US would work to contain all Communism everywhere

Question 4

NATO

Answer 4

The new anti-Soviet organization of Western nations that ended the long-time American tradition of not joining permanent military alliances.

Question 5

Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 5

Also called the Labor-Management Relations Act. It made ‘closed shops’ illegal and allowed states to “right to vote” laws allowing states to prohibit union shops

Question 6

McCarthyism

Answer 6

Joseph McCarthy’s practice of rooting out Communists and Socialists within America even in the gov’t without any real evidence

Question 7

NASA

Answer 7

National Aeronautic and Space Administration - 1958; to get US back in running with the Soviets in space race

Question 8

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 8

Segregation in public schools is unequal and therefore unconstitutional

Question 9

Little Rock

Answer 9

Governor Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. Eisenhower sent in U.S. paratroopers to ensure the students could attend class.

Question 10

Rosa Parks

Answer 10

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)