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G.I. bill established
wanted to create benefits and jobs for soldiers coming back from world war2
-benefits: low cost mortgage, start up loans for businesses low interest loans payed soldiers to go to college
-economy was greatly improving in the us with the help of the G.i bill -
truman doctrine
-purpose: the us made the policy to help stop the spread of communism and keep communism contained was created to free a smaller country from a bigger force (communist)
-containment policy: is to stop the spread of communism to other countries
domino theory: if one state came under communism the rest would follow -
marshall plan
in 1947 secretary of state george marshall proposed an economic program to contain communism
-his marshall plan supported economic aid to europe and generated increased trade between the united states and european nations
-marshall recieved the 1953 nobel peace prize for the plan -
north atlantic treaty organization (nato)
safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means
-protect eachother from the soviet union
-US,UK canada & 9 north western european countries
soviet response: they tried to expand and made the warsaw pact (defense treaty among eight communist states) -
air conditioning (man made weather)
modern a/c invented in 1902 but not put to widespread use until after ww2
-used 1st in theaters in the south, use od tv a/c and cars killed the used of front pourch gatherings and drove up the use of electricty
-jobs & people migrated to the south because of the use of a/c (people can escape the southern heat)
-with more jobs and people in the south a/c helped boosted the economy -
rock n roll
a form of popular music that envolved in the 1950's from rhythm and blues characterized by the use of electric guitars a strong rhythm with an accent on the offbeat and youth-oriented lyrics it characterized a generational divide between youths and adults
-spread from american to europe -
senate hearings led by joseph mccarthy
red scare also mccarthyism
-term coined by political cartoonist herbert block in a 1950 cartoon in reference to senator jospehmccarthy the fear of communism ( a second red scare) increased throughout the 1950s extreme opposition to communism gained the name
"mccarthyism" from the efforts of senator mccarthy in 1950 announced that communists worked in the state dept he dentify known communists and accused others due to 1000's falsely accused he lost the senators rate -
sputnik launch (russia)
important to the us: sputnik launch ignites united states - soviet space race
president of the us : dwight eisonhower (ww2 general)
head of soviet : nikita krushcev -
creation of nasa
importance to the us was the first space program made byt he us after russia launched the 1st space craft (sputnik) us also pushed for more math and science eeducation in school people pres eisonhower -
house un-american activities committee (huac)
-an investigative committee of the U.S house of representatives created in 1938 to inquire into rebellious activities in the U.S. (it was abolished in 1975)
-in the mid 1940's the committee focused its investigations on searching for communists in the united states
-most famous for investigatiing alger hiss and the "blacklisting" of many hollywood actors
-often inaccurately associated with joseph mccarthy who was a senator (not a member of the house)