Period 8-9

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    The Fair Deal

    -truman's domestic program
    -expand social safety net
    -raise living standards
    -continue New Deal reforms
  • Employment Act of 1946

    -created council of economic advisers that promoted economic welfare
  • Taft-Hartley Act

    -outlawing closed shops
    -permitted states to pass "right to work" laws outlawing the union shops
    -outlawing secondary boycotts
    -gave president power to invoke an 80 day cooling off period
  • Truman Doctrine

    -President Harry S. Truman's program
    -aid to European countries
    -threatened by communism
  • Marshall Plan

    -U.S. program
    -for reconstruction of post world war 2 Europe
    -massive aid to former enemy nations and allies
    -proposed by General George C. marshall
  • National Security Council

    -principal forum for President to consider national security, foreign policy, and military matters
    -senior national security advisors and cabinet officials
  • Levittown

    -low cost
    -mass produced developments of suburban tract housing
    -built by William Levitt after World War II on long island
  • Election of 1948

    -southern democrats broke off wanting states rights party and a reaction to the civil rights
    -liberal democrats broke off due to foreign policies
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    -alliance by ten western European nations
    -U.S., Canada to deter Soviet expansions in Europe
  • Soviet Atomic Bomb

    -abruptly ended U.S. nuclear monopoly
    -landmark event shifted the Cold War balance of power
    -accelerated the nuclear arms race
    -triggered massive expansion in U.S. defense spending and thermonuclear weapons research
    -solidified USSR as a superpower
  • NSC 68

    -manifesto described the Cold War as epic struggle
    -between "idea of freedom" and "idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin"
    -increased military spending
  • McCarran Internal Security

    -congress passed which made it unlawful to advocate/support totalitarian government
    -restricted employment of those in communist organizations
    -authorized creations of detention camps
  • Korean War

    -North Korea invaded South Korea
    -Truman applied containment policy
    -Douglas MacArthur made bold move above line
    -advanced almost to Chinese border but failed to tell China and troops came in
    -later stabilized at 38th parallel
    -MacArthur wanted to continue to fight and spoke out and was let go insubordination
    -Armistice was signed in 1953
    -2.5 million Koreans died with 54,000 Americans
  • Election of 1952

    -Americans were over Truman
    -looked for relief from the Korean War
    -Eisenhower was not a politician and promising the American people to end Korean war was promising
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    -U.S. Supreme Court decision
    -struck down racial segregation in public education
    -declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    -sparked by Rosa Parks's arrest
    -refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger
    -year long boycott protesting segregation on city buses
    -led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Taft Hartley Act

    -passed over President Harry Truman's veto
    -law contained number of provisions to weaken labor unions
    -including banning of closed shops
  • Sputnik

    -first artificial satellite to orbit earth
    -launched October 4, 1957 by Soviet Union
  • National Defense Education Act

    -passed in reaction to America's perceived inferiority in space race
    -encouraged education in science and modern languages through student loans, university research grants, and aid to public schools
  • Bay of Pigs

    -hoping to inspire revolt against Fidel Castro
    -CIA sent 1500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland
    -mission was spectacular failure
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    -caused when U.S. discovered Soviet offensive missile sites
    -U.S. Soviet confrontation was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war
  • Civil Rights Act

    outlawed discrimination based on
    -race
    -color
    -religion
    -sex
    -national origin
  • Immigration and Nationality Act

    -abolished national origin quota system
    -established new racially neutral criteria for immigration
    -set limits on Western Hemisphere immigration for first time
  • Voting Rights Act

    -passed in wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma to Montgomery March
    -authorized federal protection of right to vote
    -permitted federal enforcement of minority voting rights in individual countries
  • 9/11

    -19 hijackers
    -president Bush sent troops to afganistan and iraq
    -patriot act
    -department of homeland security

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