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who succeeded Franklin Roosevelt as President
Harry S. Truman
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what act was passed to curb the growing power of the labor union
Taft-Hartley Act
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treaty provided military aid to European Allies
North Atlantic Treaty
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member of the State Department who transferred documents to a Soviet agent
Alger Hiss
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couple was executed for leaking vital atomic bomb secrets to Russian agents
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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what program helped the European nations in their recovery after World War II
Marshal Plan
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what provided discharge pay, hospitalization, government loans for purchasing homes, farms or businesses, and education benefits for veterans
G. I. Bill of Rights
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defense pact signed by the US., Canada, and 10 western European nations in 1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dividing line between North and South Korea
38th parallel
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which American General recommended withdrawing American troops from China
General George C. Marshall
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Who was both Supreme commander in the Allied occupation of japan and the commander of American and UN forces during the Korean War
General Douglas MacArthur
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leader of Communist China
Mao-Tse-tung
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Leader of Nationalist China
Chiang Kai-shek
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dates for the Korean War
1950-1953
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what group was established to keep peace by nations with atomic weapons
Atomic Energy Commission
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term for war of words after WWII between the U.S. and Soviet Union
"Cold War"
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Winston Churchill's term for the tyranny that descended upon eastern Europe following WWII
Iron Curtain
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stated that the U.S. would employ its resources to prevent the overthrowing of any democracy through outside interference
Truman Doctrine
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what was the Soviet Union's response to the U.S. NATO
Warsaw Pact
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president of 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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when was the nation of Israel established
1948
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country that president Eisenhower sent U.S. marines in 1958 to protect American lives and prevent an Arab revolt
Lebanon
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first Soviet artificial satellite to orbit the earth
Sputnik I
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first American man-made satellite placed in orbit in 1958
Explorer I
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Who founded the SEATO organization
John Foster Dulles
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what organization was established to resist communist aggression and expansion in south east Asia
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
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first nuclear-powered merchant vessel
Savannah
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organization established in 1958 to further U.S. space research an development
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
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two states that were admitted to the Union in 1959
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what court case resulted in the desegregation of public schools
- Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
- in 1954
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who was the dictator of Cuba that ousted Fulgencio Batista (Cuba's former dictator)
Fidel Castro
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who was the chief justice who ruled in favor of public school integration
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
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Black American woman arrested for sitting in the front of the buss in Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks
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who introduced the polio vaccine
Jonas E. Salk
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first black American ballplayer to play for a major league team
Jackie Robinson
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what was the worlds longest suspension bridge
Mackinac Straits Bridge
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4 ,100 miles of roadways linking one end of the country to the other
Interstate Highway System
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youngest man ever to be elected president
John F. Kennedy
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who used her son to protest Bible reading in public school's of Baltimore, Maryland
Madalyn Murray (O'Hair)
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first American in space
Alan B. Shepard
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first two American communication satellites
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American-trained Cuban freedom fighters attempt to invade Communist Cuba
Bay of Pigs
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who assassinated president Kennedy
when
where
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- November 22, 1963
- Dallas, Texas
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project of single man space flights
Project Mercury
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first American to orbit the earth
John H. Glenn, Jr.
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when was the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
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group of communist gorillas that terrorized South Vietnam
Viet Cong
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