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Marshall Plan

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To boost European economies, the US gave more than $13 billion to help Europe rebuild after the war in 1948

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Fair Deal

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President Truman’s extension on the Roosevelt’s New Deal that included new housing and employment to create more government jobs and put an end to racial discrimination in hiring

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

a military alliance that included Canada, the US, and ten western European countries

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The post-war enemy of America

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communism

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US economy after WWII

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booming

a little inflation

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Warsaw Pact

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alliance between communist nations in case NATO attacked

the other countries would come to aid

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Truman Doctrine

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military, political, and economic policy promising aid to countries fighting to maintain democracy

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Containment

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stopping the spread of communism through military and nonmilitary means (Marshall Plan, NATO and the Truman Doctrine)

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Joseph McCarthy

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junior Senator from Wisconsin who led investigations to uncover communism in American politics and life, further heightening the hysteria of communism in the 1950s

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Arms Race

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competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop more nuclear weapons such as the 1952 hydrogen bomb

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Sputnik

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first man-made satellite
made by the Soviet Union
started the space race

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Space Race

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started after the launch of Sputnik

Congress set billions of dollars aside for space research and created NASA

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Korean War: countries involved

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Conflict involving US-led UN forces against North Korea and China to stop communism from spreading to South Korea
COMMUNISTS: North Korea, China and Russia
OPPOSING: almost three million from South Korea and from 21 United Nations (UN) countries including Australia.

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Korean War (6)

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1950-1953

  • North Korea crossed the 38th parallel and pushed South Korean forces and Americans to Pusan
  • American and UN forces pushed back to almost to the Yalu River and China
  • China got upset and helped North Korea
  • war was then in deadlock/stalemate
  • armistice signed in 1953
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Korean War: why?

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North Korea wanted to reunite the Korean peninsula and establish a communist government and spread communism

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Korean War: results

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After two years of negotiations, an armistice was reached in 1953

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Why was MacArthur fired?

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MacArthur wanted to bomb China, which was a communist country and helping N. Korea
Truman said nope
MacArthur badmouthed Truman to the media
Truman asked MacArthur to resign
-MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration’s policies, which was to have a “limited war”

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How did the Federal Highway Act change US lifestyle and cause economic growth for the US? (mention 5)

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Mention:

  • increased production of automobiles
  • mobility: tourism
  • small towns dying (towns that the highway bypassed)
  • creation of suburbs, which led to increase in housing developments
  • inner city forgotten
  • migration to the sunbelt
  • building roads: increase jobs
  • trade increase; goods- consumerism
  • industries related to road building increased (e.g. dynamite, gasoline)
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Outcome of Mao Zedong’s rule

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  • Over 1 million soldiers fought in the Korean War in China
  • Many suffered from famine and oppression
  • Between 1959-1962, more than 20 million people died from starvation
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Truman or Eisenhower?

Dropped world’s first atomic bomb

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

War hero

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Marshall Plan

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Ended segregation in the armed forces through an executive order called the Civil Rights Initiative

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Ended Korean War

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Sent troops to S. Korea

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?
Arms race (beginning)
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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Federal Highway Act

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Sputnik launch

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Brinkmanship

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

H-bomb

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Containment plan

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Chinese Revolution

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Space Race

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Fair Deal

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

NATO formed

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Provided aid to French in Vietnam War

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Truman

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Offered funds to South Vietnam to fight communism against the North

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Eisenhower

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Truman or Eisenhower?

Downsized military and cut military spending

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Eisenhower

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Mao Zedong: accomplishments

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established a communist government in China

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Mao Zedong beliefs

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  • For communists to be strong, the peasants must be convinced to embrace communism
  • Peasants under communist rule could overtake western economics by implementing hard work
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Cold War

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a 40-year standoff between the US and the Soviet Union that resulted in the space race, arms race, and intense competition between the two superpowers

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