Unit 8a Flashcards
World Bank
To fund the rebuilding of a war torn world
Cold War
The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and United States to dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989
Truman Doctrine
Doctrine pronounced in President Harry Truman statement in 1947 that the United States should assist other nations that were facing external pressure or internal revolution
International Monetary Fund
International organization established in 1945 to assist nations in maintaining stable currencies
Marshall plan
Committing the United States to help with the rebuilding of post World War II Europe
Berlin blockade
300 day Soviet blockade of land access to United States, British, in French occupation zones in Berlin
NATO
A military alliance for defending all members from outside attack
Military-industrial complex
In Eisenhower’s farewell address, he speaks about the negative impact of the Cold War on the US
Taft-Hartley act
Check the growing power of unions.
- contract requiring workers to join a union before and after being hired
- outlawing secondary boycotts
- giving the president the power to invoke an 80 day cooling off period
Dixiecrat
States rights democrat
National Security Council
The policymaking body for national defense and foreign relations consisting of the president, the secretary of defense, the Secretary of State, and others appointed by the president
CIA
Coordinated the intelligence gathering activities of various government agencies
House un-American activities committee
Held hearings indicating that communist agent had flourished
McCarthyism
Anti-Communist attitudes and actions associated with Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s, including smear tactics and innuendo
G.I. Bill
Ease the return of veterans into American society providing educational and employment benefits
Korean War
Pacific war started with North Korea attacked South Korea
NSC-68
Secret report by the National security council that states to quadruple US government defense spending, form alliances with non-Communist countries, convince the American public that a costly arm buildup was imperative for the nations defense
Federal highway act of 1956
Measure that provided federal funding to build a nationwide system of interstate and Defense Highways
National Defense education act
Authorized giving hundreds of millions of federal money for the schools for math, science, and foreign language education
Beat movement
A group of rebellious writers and intellectuals. Who advocated spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against societal standards
Jack Kerouac
Led the Beat Generation win Allen Ginsberg
Nikita Khruschev
Soviet Leader who denounced the crimes of Joseph Stalin supported “peaceful coexistence” with the west
Detente
Easing of tension. Used to describe the new US relations with China and the Soviet Union in 1972
Geneva accord
Called for reunification a national elections in Vietnam in 1956
New frontier
JFK’s domestic and foreign policy initiatives, designed to in reinvigorate sense of national purpose and energy
Alliance for progress
Program of economic aid to Latin America during the Kennedy Aministration
Bay of Pigs
Sites in Cuba of an unsuccessful landing by 1400 anti-Castro Cuban refugees in April 1961
Cuban missile crisis
Crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba
Limited nuclear test ban treaty
Signed by the United States, Britain, in the Soviet Union, outlawing nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and outerspace, and underwater
Great society
theme of Lyndon Johnson’s administration, focusing on poverty, education, and civil rights
Congress of racial equality
Civil rights group formed in 1942 committed to nonviolent civil disobedience
Brown versus Board of Education
Supreme Court decision in 1850 that declared that the “separate but equal” schools for children of different races violated the Constitution
Southern Christian leadership conference
Formed by Martin Luther King Jr., Organized ministers and churches in the south to get behind the civil rights struggle
Montgomery bus boycott
After Rosa Parks’s arrest, A massive African-American protested the buses
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
A committee formed to keep the sit-in movement organized
Freedom rides
Civil rights activists who traveled across to south on a crusade to end segregation facilities serving interstate bus passengers
March on Washington
A peaceful protest led my MLKJr. One of the largest and most successful demonstrations. (I have a Dream speech)
Civil rights act of 1964
Made segregation illegal in all public facilities and gave the federal government additional powers to enforce school desegregation
Freedom summer
Voter registration effort in rule Mississippi organized by black and white civil rights workers 1964
Nation of Islam
Religious movement among black Americans that emphasizes self-sufficiency, self-help, and separation from white society
