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Taft-Hartley Act

Passed by Congress after President Truman vetoed it. It outlawed "closed" shops and made unions responsible for any damages that occurred from jurisdictional disputes among themselves. The union leaders were required to take an oath of noncommunism.

Employment Act

Changed the government's policy "to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." Also created a 3 member Council of Economic Advisers who gave the president data and recommendations about how to achieve the policy.

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

AKA. The GI Bill of Rights. This bill gave money to former soldiers so they could go to school to help with the markets inability to make room for the 15 million men returning home.

Dr. Spock

Wrote The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care which taught parents the common knowledge on child rearing that was previously pasted down from grandparent to parent.

Levitt brothers

The first of builders to "revolutionize the techniques of home construction." Created Levit-towns which consisted of hundred or thousands of cookie cutter houses.

White flight

A great migration of the white middle class after the migration of African Americans to the north. Typically move from the inner cities to the "leafy green suburbs.

Baby boom

The steep incline seen in the birthrate during the decade and a half after the war.

Yalta Conference

A conference between the Big Three where an agreement on what to do about the conquered Germany was made. Poland was given a representative government based on free election, Bulgaria and Romania were given free elections, and in place of the League of Na

Containment doctrine

Created by George F. Kennan. Stated that the Soviets were expansionary (looking to conquer other lands) Kennan's containment of the Soviets was the suggestion that Truman took.

Truman doctrine

A grant directly proposed by the president for $400 million to help Greece and Turkey. Upheld the American policy of supporting free peoples who are resisting attempted armed attacks and pressures.

Marshall plan

Called for Congress to spend $12.5 billion during 4 years in the 16 other cooperating countries. Truman spent loads of money in the Western European nations where he helped drive out communism from Italy and France.

National Security Act

Created the Department of Defense which was housed in the Pentagon and consisted of the secretary of defense and secretaries of the navy, army, and air force. The National Security Council was also created to give advice to the president on security matte

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

A European pact/alliance that the US joined which an attack on one of the 12 countries would be considered as an attack on every single country.

The Loyalty Review Board

Established to ensure the loyalty of federal employees by investigating 3 million people and dismissing or having resigned were 3,000 of those but not under formal indictment

The Committee on Un-American Activities

Established in order to investigate "subversion" or any threats to the government.

Alger Hiss

After being accused of being a communist agent in the 1930s, he brought his case to the Un-American Activities Committee, but was caught in lies after his attempt to deny the claims. Sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

Two American citizens who were convicted in 1951 of espionage for leaking information about American progression to Moscow. Ended with the electric chair for both.

Fair Deal

Truman's program that supported improvement of housing, full employment, higher minimum wages, better farm price supports, new TVAs, and an extension of Social Security. Ended only raiding minimum wage, creating public housing, and extending old-age insur

NSC-68

(National Security Council Memorandum Number 68) The proposal by the National Security Council to quadruple the US's defense spending. Led to 3.5 million men under arms and $50 billion per year spending for the defense budget.