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Satellite Nation
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countries dominated by the Soviet Union
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Containment
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taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
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Cold War
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conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the battlefield
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Truman Doctrine
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it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures
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Marshall Plan
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Gave money to communist countries to help them
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Berlin airlift
Definition
fly food supplies into West Berlin
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NATO
Definition
defensive military alliance
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Mao Zedong
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communists leader, ruled in northern China, relied heavily on financial aid from the Soviet Union
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Chiang Kai-shek
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nationalists, ruled in southern and eastern China, relied heavily on aid from the US
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38th parallel
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surrendered to the Soviets, japanese troops south of the parellel surrendered to the Americans
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Korean War
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North Korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea
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HAUC
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investigated possible Communist influence, both inside and outside the US government
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Blacklist
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a list of people whom they condemned for having a Communist background
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Rosenbergs
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minor activists in the American Communist Party
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McCarthyism
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attacks on suspected Communists in the early 1950's
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H bomb
Definition
hydrogen bomb
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
was president whenever both countries had the h bomb
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Brinkmanship
Definition
to go to the edge of all-out war
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CIA
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spies used to gather information abroad
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Warsaw Pact
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linked the Soviet Union with seven Eastern European countries
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Khrushchev
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believed the communism would take over the world, but Khrushchev thought it could triumph peacefully
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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US would defent the Middle East against an attack by any communist country
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U2 incident
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a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace
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G.I. Bill of Rights
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an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans
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Harry Truman
Definition
elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan
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Dixiecrat
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Any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights
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Fair Deal
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a doctrine of limitations and exceptions to copyright which is found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Franchise
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An authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities
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Baby Boom
Definition
A temporary marked increase in the birth rate, esp. the one following World War II
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Jonas Salk
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United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis
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FCC
Definition
Federal Communications Commission
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Beat Movement
Definition
a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired
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beatnik
Definition
A young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation
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JF Kennedy
Definition
was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963
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Fidel Castro
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Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
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Berlin Wall
Definition
A fortified and heavily guarded wall built on the boundary between East and West Berlin in 1961 by the communist authorities
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Test Ban Treaty
Definition
An international agreement not to test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space, or underwater, signed in 1963 by the US, the UK, and the former Soviet Union, and later by more than 100 governments
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New Frontier
Definition
used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him
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Peace Corps
Definition
An organization sponsored by the US government that sends young people to work as volunteers in developing countries
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Alliance For Progress
Definition
initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between North and South America
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Warren Commission
Definition
an official investigation conducted by a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Definition
served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
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Great Society
Definition
A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs
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Medicare
Definition
A federal system of health insurance for people over 65 years of age and for certain younger people with disabilities
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Medicaid
Definition
A federal system of health insurance for those requiring financial assistance
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Reapportionment
Definition
the process of allocating political power among a set of principles
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Martin Luther King
Definition
United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks
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Rosa Parks
Definition
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
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SCLC
Definition
A group that works to gain equal rights for Black Americans and other minority groups through non-violent civil protests and community development programs.
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SNCC
Definition
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a US civil-rights student organization active in the 1960s
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Freedom Rider
Definition
A person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race
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1964 Civil Rights Act
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States
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Voting Rights Act
Definition
a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
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Malcolm X
Definition
US political activist; joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights
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Nation of Islam
Definition
An exclusively black Islamic sect proposing a separate black nation, founded in Detroit
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Consumerism
Definition
The preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods.
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