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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