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House in-American activities committe
An investigative committee of the us House of Representatives created in 1938 to inquire into rebellion activities in the us. (It was abolished in 1975)
•in the mid 1940s the committee focus its investigation on searching for communists in the United States .
•most famous for investigating Alger hiss and for the blacklisting of many hollywoods actors
•often inaccurately associated with Joseph McCarthy who was a senator. (Not a member of the house ) -
G.I bill established
Wanted to create benefits and jobs for soldiers coming back from world war 2
•benefits low cost mortgage start up loans for business . Low interest loans loans payed soldiers to go to college
• economy was greatly improving in the us with the help of the help of the G.I bill -
Truman doctrine
•purpose the u.s made the policy to help stop the spread of communism and keep communist contained was created to free a smaller country from a bigger force (communist )
•containment policy is to stop the spread of communism to other countries domo theory of one state came under communist the rest would follow -
Marshall plan
In 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall proposed an economic program to contain communism
•his Marshall plan supported economic aid to Europe and generated increased trade between the United States and European nations
• Marshall received the 1953 Nobel peace prize for the plan . -
NATO
Purpose safeguard freedom and security of its members through political and military means
•why it was created protect each other from the Soviet Union members US , UK Canada , and 9 Nothe Western European countries
•stand for the north north North Atlantic treaty organization
•soviet response they tried to expand and made the Warsaw Pact (defense treaty among eight communist states ) -
air-conditioning (man made weather)
-modern a/c invited in 1902 but not to widesored use untill after ww2
-used 1st in a theater in the south -used od tv a/c and cars killed the use of front pourch gatheering and drove up the use of electrity
-jobs and people migrated to the south b/c of the use of ac (people can escape the southern heat with more jobs and people in the south a/c helped boosted the economy -
rock and roll
a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from rythem and blues characterized ny the use of electric guitars a strong rythm with an accient on the off beat and youth oriented lyrics it characzied a general divied between youths and adults -
spuntinik launch
important the US , spuntink launched ignites united states soviet space race president of the us dwight elison hower (ww2 general) head of the soviet union nikita krushev -
creation of NASA
importance to the US was the first space program made by the US after Russia launched the 1st space craft (sputnik) US also pushed for more MATH AND SCIENCE education in school people pres eisonhower -
Berlin wall
-in 1961 the soviet backed the east german goverment (GDR began contructiong a fence to halt the flow of human resources from the eaast to the west the wall was a symbol of the division of east and west for the rimender of the cold war until it was taken down in 1989. iron curtain phrase used by winston churchil to described the division of europe between communist and democratiantions