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American diplomat who authored the "containment doctrine" in 1947, arguing that the Soviet Union was inherently expansionist and had to be stopped, via political and military force, from spreading throughoug the world
  • George Kennan
  • Jiang Jieshi
  • Joseph Stalin
  • George Marshall
Republican-promoted, anti-union legislation passed over President Truman's veto that weakened many of labor's New Deal gains by banning the closed shop and other strategies that helped unions organize; it also required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath, which purged the union movement of many of its most committed and active organizers
  • Marshall Plan (1948)
  • Fair Deal (introduced 1949)
  • Truman Doctrine (1947)
  • Taft-Hartley Act (1948)
Meeting of Western allies to establish a postwar international economic order to avoid crises like the one that spawned World War II. Led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, designed to regulate currency levels and provide aid to underdeveloped countries
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (est. 1949)
  • Bretton Woods Conference (1944)
  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (est. 1938)
  • Yalta Conference (1945)
Soviet dictator from Lenin's death in 1922 until his own death inHe led the Soveit Union through World War II and shaped Soviet policies in the early years of the Cold War and secured protectice "satellite states" in Eastern Europe at Yalta Conference while pushing Soviet scientists to develop atomic weapons, escalating an arms race with the United States
  • Joseph Stalin
  • George Kennan
  • Jiang Jieshi
  • George Marshall
Pediatrician and author of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," which instrumented parents on modern child-rearing, replacing traditional means of passing along such knowledge. He is often said to have the bible of the baby boomer generation
  • Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Benjamin Spock
  • George Kennan
  • Jiang Jieshi
suburban communities with mass-produced tract houses built in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas by William Levitt and Sons. Typically inhabited by white middle-class people who fled the cities in search of homes to buy for their growing families
  • United Nations
  • containment doctrine
  • baby boom (1946-1964)
  • Levittown (1950s)
Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War
  • Berlin airlift (1948)
  • containment doctrine
  • Operation Dixie (1948)
  • baby boom (1946-1964)
President Truman's universal pledge of support for any people fighting any communist or communist-inspired threat; presented to Congress in support of his request for $400 million to defend Greece and Turkey against Soviet-backed insurgencies
  • Jiang Jieshi
  • George Kennan
  • George Marshall
  • Truman Doctrine (1947)
America's strategy against the Soviet Union basedf on the ideas of George Kennan; it declared that the Soviet Union and communism were inherently expansionist and had to be stopped from spreading through both military and political pressure and, as a result, guided American foreign policy throughout most of the Cold War
  • baby boom (1946-1964)
  • Berlin airlift (1948)
  • containment doctrine
  • United Nations
failed effort by CIO after World War II to unionize southern workers, especially in textile factories
  • Berlin airlift (1948)
  • baby boom (1946-1964)
  • Operation Dixie (1948)
  • Levittown (1950s)
investigatory body established to root out "subversion." Sought to expose communist influence in American government and society, in particular through the trial of Alger Hiss
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (est. 1949)
  • Yalta Conference (1945)
  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (est. 1938)
  • Bretton Woods Conference (1944)
fifteen-state crescent through the American South and Southwest that experience terrific population and productivity expansion after World War II and particularly in the decades after the war, eclipsing the old industrial Northeast
  • United Nations
  • containment doctrine
  • Sunbelt
  • baby boom (1946-1964)
massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild postwar Western Europe, intended to bolster capitalist and democratic governments and prevent domestic communist groups from riding poverty and misery to power; was first announced by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947
  • GI Bill (1944)
  • Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Fair Deal (introduced 1949)
  • Marshall Plan (1948)
legislation declaring that the government's economic policy should aim to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power, as well as to keep inflation low. A general commitment that was much shorter on specific targets and rules than its liberal creators had wished, it created the Council of Economic Advisers to provide the President with data and recommendations to make economic policy
  • United Nations
  • containment doctrine
  • Employment Act of 1946
  • Berlin airlift (1948)
demographic explosion from births to returning soldiers and others who had put off starting families during the war; this large generation of new Americans forced the expansion of many institutions such as schools and universities
  • baby boom (1946-1964)
  • Levittown (1950s)
  • containment doctrine
  • Berlin airlift (1948)
meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin where the Big Three leaders laid the foundations for the postwar division of power in Europe, including a divide Germany and territorial concessions to the Soviet Union
  • Yalta Conference (1945)
  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (est. 1938)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (est. 1949)
  • Bretton Woods Conference (1944)
National Security Council recommendation to quadruple defense spending and rapidly expand peace-time armed forces to address Cold War tensions; it reflected a new militarization of American foreign policy but the huge costs of rearmament were not expected to interfere with what seemed like the limitless possibilities of postwar prosperity
  • National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68) (1950)
  • United Nations
  • containment doctrine
  • Levittown (1950s)
offically known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, this law helped returning World War II soldiers reintegrate into civilian life by securing loans to buy homes and farms and set up small businesses and by making tuition and stipends available for them to attend college and job training programs; it was also intended to cushion the blow of 15 million returning servicemen on the employment market and to nurture the postwar economy
  • Benjamin Spock
  • Reinhold Niebuhr
  • GI Bill (1944)
  • Marshall Plan (1948)
military alliance of Western European powers and the United States and Canada established to defend against the common threat from the Soviet Union, marking a giant stride forward for European unity and American internationalism
  • Yalta Conference (1945)
  • Marshall Plan (1948)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (est. 1949)
  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (est. 1938)
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