Taft-Hartley Act
Condemned by Labor leaders as a "slave labor law". It outlawed the "closed" shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath.
Operation Dixie
CIO's operation aimed at unionizing southern textile workers and steelworkers.
Employment Act
Made it government policy "to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.". Created a three-member Council of Economic Advisers to provide the president with the data and recommendations to make policy a reality.
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
Made generous provisions for sending veterans to school.
GI Bill
Nickname for Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
R and D
Research and Development
Spock
Wrote The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Sunbelt
15 State region stretching in a crescent from Virginia through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California
Frostbelt
The industrialized Northeast
Rustbelt
the Heavy-industry Ohio Valley
Levitt brothers
Pioneered the construction industry, revolutionized the techniques of home construction. Levittown
secondary boom
those born to the baby boomers
Truman
the accidental president
New York
most populous state
Yalta
where conference was held to divide Germany and its possessions; created United Nations
Big Five
US, Britain, USSR, France, and China
Assembly
part of UN that can be controlled by smaller nations
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
trial for 22 former Nazi leaders
Goering
cheated executioners by consuming a hidden cyanide capsule
satellite states
Poland and Hungary
containment doctrine
held that Russia, was relentlessly expansionary. Argued that the flow of Soviet power could be stemmed by "firm and vigilant containment
Kennan
crafted containment doctrine
Truman Doctrine
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
Niebuhr
Protestant clergyman who crusaded against fascism, pacifism, and communism. Divided the world into the "children of light" and "children of darkness
Marshall Plan
Stated at Harvard University, called for spending $12.5 Billion over four years to provide financial assistance to Europe
National Security Act
Created the Department of Defense, National Security Council, and Central Intelligence Agenct
Department of Defense
housed in the Pentagon, contained civilian secretaries of the navy, army, and air force
CIA
coordinated the government's foreign fact gathering; Central Intelligence Agency
NATO
Democratic defensive alliance that pledged to regard an attack on one country as an attack on all
Oppenheimer
led project behind the H-Bomb
Loyalty Review Board
investigated 3 million federal employees in fear of communism
Dennis v. United States
upheld convictions of eleven communists to go to jail for violating the Smith Act of 1940
Hiss
chased by Nixon, accused of being a communist agent in 1930s
McCarran Internal Security Bill
vetoed by Truman, authorized the president to arrest and detain suspicious people during an "internal security emergency
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
allegedly "leaked" atomic data to Moscow
Dewey
Republican nominee in 1948
Thurmond
States' Rights nominee in 1948
Wallace
Progressive nominee in 1948; Pied Piper of the Politburo
Point Four
plan to lend US money and technical aid to underdeveloped lands to help them help themselves
Fair Deal
called for improved housing, full employment, higher minimum wage, better farm price supports, new TVAs, and extension of Social Security
Korea
the Land of the Morning Calm
Acheson
Truman's secretary of state
NSC-68
National Security Council recommendation that the United States should quaduple its defense spending
International Money Fund
encourage world trade by regulating currency exchange rates (founded International Bank for Reconstruction and Development=World Bank) to promote economic growth in war ravaged and underdeveloped areas
Cold War
struggle to conatin Soviet Communism
MacArthur
in charge of reconstructing Japan