Download - Unit 11—Chapters 26 – 27 The Cold War in the 50s and 60s (1945 – 1963) CSS 11.7, 11.8, 11.10, 11.11
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United Nations
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Bretton Woods Conference, 1944•
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World Bank, 1945•
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GATT, 1949 - 1993 •
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IMF, 1944•
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Marshall Plan
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Marshall Plan, 1947•
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Berlin Airlift, 1948•
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Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine, 1947•
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National Security Act, 1947• • • • •
NATO, 1949•
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Warsaw Pact, 1950•
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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.”—Harry S Truman
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The Red Scare
Smith Act, 1940•
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Loyalty Review Board, 1947• •
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HUAC, 1949•
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Alger Hiss• •
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Blacklisting•
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• Charlie Chaplin• Harry Belafonte• Lloyd Bridges• Arthur Miller• Zero Mostel• Orson Welles
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McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy, 1950•
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, 1951•
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McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, 1952•
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McCarran Internal Security Act, 1950•
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McCarthy v. the US Army, 1954•
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Korean War
People’s Republic of China, 1949•
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Korean War, 1950-1953•
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Inchon•
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Panmunjom, 1951•
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur• •
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“the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy”--Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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Truman Administration1945-1953
Election of 1948•
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Fair Deal•
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Point Four•
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GI Bill, 1944• •
Taft-Hartley Act, 1947• • •
AFL-CIO, 1955•
Landrum-Griffith Act, 1959•
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1948Give em Hell, Harry
D Harry S Truman 24,179,345 303
R Thomas E. Dewey 21,991,291 189
Dx J. Strom Thurmond 1,176,125 39
P Henry A. Wallace 1,157,326 --
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Eisenhower Administration1953-1961
Dwight D. Eisenhower•
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Checkers Speech• •
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Interstate Highway Act, 1955•
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U-2 Incident, 1960• •
Military-Industrial Complex, 1960•
R Dwight Eisenhower 33,936,234 442
D Adlai E. Stevenson 27,314,992 89
“I like Ike!”
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Brinkmanship
Brinkmanship•
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Hungarian Revolution, 1956•
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Sputnik, 1957• •
Missile Gap•
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957•
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• CENTO, 1955-1979• • US, UK, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan•
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Suez Canal Crisis, 1957•
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OPEC, 1960• • Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela
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Kennedy Administration1961-1963
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Election of 1960•
New Frontier• 1. 2. 3. 4.
Peace Corps, 1961•
Alliance for Progress, 1961•
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Assassination, 1963• • •
Warren Commission, 1963•
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D John F. Kennedy 34,226,731 303
R Richard M. Nixon 34,108,157 219
D Harry Byrd 15
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Kennedy v. Khrushchev
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Bay of Pigs, 1961•
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Berlin Wall, 1961•
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962•
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963•
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“Ich bin ein berliner.”--JFK, 1961
"We are eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.“--Sec. of State Dean Rusk
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Prosperity
Booming American Economy• •
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Levittown, NY•
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McDonald’s, 1940• •
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Disneyland, 1955•
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Conformity
Baby Boom, 1946-1964• • •
Benjamin Spock• The Common Sense Book of Baby and
Child Care, 1945• •
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1950s Pop Culture
Television• •
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Davy Crockett• •
Father Knows Best• •
Ozzie and Harriet•
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The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964•
Rock and Roll, 1954•
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Movies• Rebel without a Cause, 1955
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"What are you rebelling against, Johnny? Whaddaya got?“--Marlon Brando in The Wild Ones, 1953
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The Other America
Uneven Prosperity• •
Operation Wetback•
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Bomb Shelters•
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Playboy, 1953• •