BJ American Republic Chapter 25 new – Flashcards
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How did the Gi bill help veterans?
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Gave GI's help finding jobs, education, and home purchases.
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What was Truman's domestic plan called?
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Fair Deal
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What act limited the power of labor unions?
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Which person broke the color barrier of major league baseball, and for which team did he play?
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Jackie Robinson; Brooklyn Dodgers
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Which Supreme Court case mandated that public schools in America integrate "with all deliberate speed"?
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Name the civil rights leaders--one man and one woman--who were instrumental in ending segregation on public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
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What are the three bodies of the United Nations? Which body is the strongest?
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General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat; Strongest is Security Council
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Which section of germany came under communist control?
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Eastern part of Germany
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What changed occurred in Japan under U.S supervision?
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1 helped the Japanese write a new constitution 2 elected legislative body 3 gave rights to all citizens 4 women got to vote.
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What plan was developed for giving aid to Europe after the war.
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The Marshall Plan
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What did Winston Churchill call the barrier between communist controlled countries and the wast
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Iron Curtain
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What idea promoted the use of the military aid to carry out the United States containment policy?
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Truman Doctrine
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How did the United states keep West Berlin from falling into communist hands?
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Berlin airlift--carried supplies to West Berlin
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What military alliance was formed to halt the threat of soviet aggression in Europe?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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What alliance did the Soviet Union form to challenge NATO?
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Warsaw Pact
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Who was the leader of free china? Who led the communist takeover of china?
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Mao Zedong; Chiang Kai-shek
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Whom did truman choose to lead the U.N force in korea?
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Douglas MacArthur
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What alliance was started to contain communist in southern Asia?
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
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What Latin American country turned communist in 1959? Who became its leader?
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Cuba; Fidel Castro
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Who was elected president in 1952? What party did he represent?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What were the president's three great domestic accomplishments?
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completed St. Lawrence Seaway, beginning of interstate highway system, Alaska and Hawaii were added as states
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How did the St. Lawrence Seaway benefit the United States and Canada?
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Because it allowed ocean-going vessels to sail to the Great Lakes, it 1. helped economies in both countries 2. turned Great Lake cities into major seaports 3. was used to provide electrical power
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Who devised a plan for helping the war-torn countries of Europe?
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George Marshall
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What legislation initiated the interstate highway system?
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Federal Aid Highway Act
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What two states entered the Union in 1959?
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Alaska and Hawaii
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baby boom
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a large number of babies are born
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green revolution
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improvements in farming methods
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McCarthyism
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describes Joseph McCarthy's dishonest and reckless way of rooting out Communists
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Cold War
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tensions between US and USSR that did not erupt into military conflict, but created disputes and fears of a third world war
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peaceful coexistence
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an agreement between US and USSR to settle problems without fighting
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Fidel Castro
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Cuba
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Free China
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnam
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet Union
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Mao Zedong
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Communist China
