Japanese interment
forcible relocation by the US government in 1942 of approximately 120,000 Japanese American and Japanese residing in the US to camps called "war relocation camps.
Greensboro Sit-ins
Black students politely order food from restaurant, and were not served. They sat in place for days, gathering supporters. Successful.
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
were American Communist who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espoinage.
U-2 incident
am american u-2 spy plane was shot down over the soviet union
Marshall plan
the primary plan of US for the rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries in Europe, and repelling the threat of internal communism after WWII.
Casablanca Conference
January 1943 conference between FDR and Churchill that produces Unconditional Surrender doctrine.
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
an international conference in which the UN was formulated and negotiated
Alger Hiss
was a U.S. State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
Long Hot Summers
Riots in black neighborhoods in northern cities between 1965 and 1968
Henry Wallace
A former Democratic who ran on the New Progressive Party due to his disagreement on Truman's policy with the Soviets. He caused the Democratic party to split even more during the election season.
Baby Boomers
Everyone born during the post-WWII demographic boom in births
Jack Kerouac
was the author of the best-selling book On the Road, which epitomized the Beat Generation of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Little Rock school crisis
A group of African-Americans who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school.
G.I. Bill of Rights
provided college or vocational education for returning WWII veterans and one year of unemployment compensation.
Jackie Robinson
The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.
Korematsu v US
1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 to each survivor
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest campaign started in 1955 intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system
McCarthyism
politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty without proper regard for evidence.
Harry Truman
33rd president of the US who actually made the decision to drop the atomic as a means of ending World War II and saving American lives.
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology.
Teheran Conference
A meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin to discuss coordination of military efforts against Germany, they repeated the pledge made in the earlier Moscow Conference to create the UN after the war's conclusion to help ensure international peace.
San Francisco Conference
This conference expanded the drafts of the Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks conferences and adopted the "United Nations" Charter, 1945.
NSC-68
a blueprint for US militarization of the Cold War
Youngstown Sheet and Tube v Sawyer
Truman discovered steel workers were planning a strike. He ordered Sec. of Commerce to nationalize steel mines and have the government run them. Truman couldn't because of the Supreme Court ruling that the president wasn't allowed to take possession of private property, 1952.
Douglas MacArthur
US general and Commander of Allied forces in the SW Pacific during WWII. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea, before being forced to relinquish command by President Truman.
Sputnik
The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.
Beat Generation
The generation of writers who rebelled against American Culture for its conformity, blind faith in technology, and materialism.
Eisenhower Doctrine
a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from the US military forces if it was being threatened by another state.
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
Provided college or vocational education for returned WWII veterans as well as one year of unemployment compensation, aka GI Bill.
New Frontier
The campaign program advocated by JFK in the 1960 election. He promised to revitalize the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and civil rights.
Federal Highway Act
Appropriating $25 billion for the construction of interstate highways over a 20-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history to that point.
Employment Act of 1946
Main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability on the federal government.
Brown v. Board of Education
Court ruled that segregation, "separate but equal," was unconstitutional, overturned Plessey v Ferguson.
Fair Deal
Truman's extension of the New Deal that increased minimum wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing.
Containment
a US policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stop the spread of Communism.
Yalta Conference
Meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin. USSR agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War.
United Nations
an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, security, economic development, social progress, and human rights; and achieving world peace.
Berlin Airlift
during the multinational occupation of post-WWII Germany, the USSR blocked the western allies' railway and road access to Berlin. Over 4000 tons of supplies and food per day were airlifted to West Berlin.
George Kennan
He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.
Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
NATO
Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies.
Taft-Hartley Act
US federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions
NDEA
Billions of dollars poured into math and science following Sputnik.
Ralph Bunche
United States diplomat and United Nations official; frist African-American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize; helped legitimize the United Nations.
Dynamic Conservatism
Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal (money). Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.