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Baby Boom ANS✔✔ the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War
II
Generation Gap ANS✔✔ The cultural seperation between children and their parents
Poverty Line ANS✔✔ a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
Space Race ANS✔✔ a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union
New Frontier ANS✔✔ 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.
reapportionment ANS✔✔ the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every
census
Flexible Response ANS✔✔ the buildup of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a
limited war without using nuclear weapons
Warren Commission ANS✔✔ Commission made by LBJ after killing of John F. Kennedy. (Point is to
investigate if someone paid for the assasination of Kennedy.) Conclusion is that Oswald killed Kennedy
on his own. Commissioner is Chief Justice Warren.
Great Society ANS✔✔ President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great
Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights
legislation, and federal aid to education.
,War on Poverty ANS✔✔ President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social
services for the poor and elderly
Bay of Pigs ANS✔✔ In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When
the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure.
Missile Crisis ANS✔✔ in cuba it had shaken both american and soviet officials. In all the years of cold
war, the world never came closer to a full-scale nuclear war.
Vietnam ANS✔✔ a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who
were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported
by the United States
Vietcong ANS✔✔ the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam, also know as the National
Liberation Front
credibility gap ANS✔✔ lack of trust or believability
counterculter ANS✔✔ a culture with values and beliefs different from the mainstream
Hawks ANS✔✔ those who supported the war
Doves ANS✔✔ people who opposed the war
United Nations ANS✔✔ an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world
belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development.
,Satellite Nations ANS✔✔ a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation
Containtment ANS✔✔ the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence
Cold War ANS✔✔ the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the
United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
Truman Doctrine ANS✔✔ a U.S. policy, announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, of providing
economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
Marshall Plan ANS✔✔ the program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under
which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World
War II.
Berlin Airlift ANS✔✔ a 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into
West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NOTA) ANS✔✔ a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten
Western European countries, the United States, and Canada.
Chiang Kai-shek ANS✔✔ was driven from the mainland to Taiwan (1949), where he served as president
of Nationalist China until his death.
Taiwan ANS✔✔ An island off the southeast coast of China, the seat of the Republic of China since 1949.
Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 and regained by China after World War II (1945).
Korean War ANS✔✔ a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953, in
which the United States, along with other UN countries,
, House Un-American Commitee ANS✔✔ a congressional committee that investigated Communist
influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.
Hollywood Ten ANS✔✔ ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's
investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood.
Blacklist ANS✔✔ a list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to
work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections.
Alger Hiss ANS✔✔ American public official. Accused of espionage at the height of the Communist scare,
he was convicted of perjury (1950) in a controversial case.
McCarthyism ANS✔✔ the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on
people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s
infiltration ANS✔✔ the act of penetrating a group or organization without being noticed for purposes
such as spying
H-bomb ANS✔✔ the hydrogen bomb—a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic
bomb.
Dwight D. Eisenhower ANS✔✔ American general and the 34th President of the United States (1953-
1961). As supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (1943-1945) he launched the invasion
of Normandy (June 6, 1944) and oversaw the final defeat of Germany (1945).
John Foster Dulles ANS✔✔ American diplomat and politician who as U.S. secretary of state (1953-1959)
pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR largely through military and economic aid to American allies
Brinkmanship ANS✔✔ the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any
aggression
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