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10th Grade
03/17/2008

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Term
Tennessee Williams
Definition

Theater - Plays

Author Of;

Glass Menague

Stree Car Named Desire

Term
Arthur Miller
Definition

Theater - Plays

Wrote;

Death Of A Salesman

Term
Rogerst Hammerstein
Definition

Musicals

Wrote;

Oklahoma

South Pacific

Term
Orson Wells
Definition

Movies;

Citizen Kane

Term
Humphry Bogart
Definition

Movies;

Casablanca

Term
Elizabeth Taylor
Definition

Movies;

Starred In..

National Velvet

Term
Jim Dimaggio
Definition

Baseball;

 

"Yankee Clipper" 

 

Term
Ted Williams
Definition

Baseball;

Red Sox

"Splended Splinter"

Term
Jackie Robinson
Definition

Brooklyn Dogers

Color Line 

Term
Sam Snead
Definition

Golf;

 

Babe Diedrickson 

Term
Helsiwki
Definition
Olympics In 1948 Were Held Here.
Term

Harry S Truman;

 

"

Wife

Where From?

How Long? 

Definition

 

"Give Em Hell Harry"

Wife; Bess

Missouri

45-53 

Term
Truman Served As;
Definition

National Guard In Korea

Buisnessman

county judge

us senate

vp

pres 

 

Term
Trumans' Toughest Decision?
Definition
Dropping The A-Bomb.
Term
Cold War;
Definition

Period Of Time When The Tension/Threat Of War Existed Between us-ussr But There Was No Direct War.

 

Led Through By Truman.

 

46-89 

Term

Iron Curtain;

 

Who.. 

Definition

Nations Of Eastern Europe Under Soviet Domination.

 

Who;

 

E.Germ

Poland

Czech

Hungary

Romania

Bulgaria 

 

Term
Truman Doctrine;
Definition

A Warning.

 

Us will support any nation resisting communism.

Fear Of Greece And Turky Turning. 

Term

Marshall Plan;

 

When. 

Plan.

Result.

Sec Of State. 

Definition

1947

 

The idea to rebuild western europe.

 

result; we saved w.europe from communism and restored their economies. 

 

SecOfState; George Marshalls 

Term

Fed. Rep. Of West Germ.

 

Capitol; 

Definition

Us, Gb, Fr put it back together.

 

; Bond 

Term

Crisis! Berlin..

Danger?

 

What Was Decided On; 

Definition

Stalin Closed Roads To Berlin.

West. Berlin Would Fall To Communism

 

Operation Vittlels. (Fr, Brit, Us)

Airlift - Everything Flown In 

 

Term
NATO
Definition

Us & Allies Formed It.

 

North Atlantic Treaty Org.

 

An Allience Against Sovet Aggression.

(Communism) 

Term
Warsaw Pact;
Definition

Allience Of Ussr

And Eastern Europe Puppet States 

Term

truman's Domestic Plan..

Fair Deal 

Definition

 

 

1-health care program

2- stedy income for farmers

3-min wage = 75Cents

4-social security

5-flood control

6-money to clean up slums 

Term
Truman's Domestic Plan; Civil Rights
Definition

 

Desegregated Millitary

Anti Lynching Laws 

Term
Taft-Harley Act;
Definition

Reason Passed; Keep Communism Out.

 

1-Prohibitted Closed Shop; not aloud to not want to be in union)

2-Abolished the checkoff system. (letting employer deduct union dues)

3-Loyalty oaths required of all employees

4-can not use union dues to support a political campaign 

Term

RED SCARE;

 

Why Was There A Red Scare? 

Definition

1 - Concern Of USSR Creaing Iron Curtain.

2- Concern That USSR Successfully Tested The A-Bomb

3- The Knowledge That Soviet Spys AInfiltrated In The Us 

Term

Red Scare;

What Congress Did..

 

Definition

Taft-Hartley Act

Loyalty Boards

HUAC 

Term
Huac
Definition

House Of UnAmerican Activities Comity

 

Headed By J Ranell Thomas

 

Target; Hollywood

 

Whitness Friendly & Unfriendly. 

 

 Hollywwood 10 Didn't Coopertae With Huac 

Term
Alger Hiss
Definition

Sate Dept. Employee

 

Accused of selling secrets to USSR. By Witaker Chyambers. 

Term
Ethel + Julius Rosenberg
Definition

Acused Of Leaking Info On A-Bomb To USSR

 

Ethel's Brother Worked At Los Alamos & Sold Them Out.

 

 

 

 

Term
McCarthy
Definition

Senator Of Wisconsin

 

McCarthyism..

 

Lied About Communists In Gov In Speech To Women's Group.

 

Destroyed Careers 

 

Exposed; Army Vs. McCarthy Televised. 

Term

Kim Il Song

 

Captiol Of Nk? 

Definition

Led The Communists Of North Korea

 

 

Pyong Yang 

Term

Syngman Rhee

 

Cap of Sk? 

Definition

Sk led by..

 

Seoul 

 

Term

Korean War;

 

Speech By..

 

north korea takes action..

 

united nations? 

Definition

 

 

Dean Achers

 

pushes SK Back into pudan

 

peace keeping

us

gb

fr

nationalist china

Ussr Is Boycotting 

 

 

Un Surprise NK At Inchon

 

NK Is pushed bback to Bondley of China.

 

 

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