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17 Cards in this Set
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Army- McCarthy hearings
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Televised US Senate hearings on Senator Joseph McCarthy's charges of disloyalty in the Army
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Fair Deal
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Reform proposals of the Truman administration; included civil rights legislation, national health insurance, and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
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House and Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC)
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Investigated subversives in the gov and holders of radical ideas ; mainly Hollywood notables and former State Department official Alger Hiss
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Marshall Plan
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US program for the reconstruction of post WWII Europe through massive aid to former enemy nations as well as allies
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Truman Doctrine
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By Pres Truman to aid the European countries- mainly Turkey and Greece- threatened by communism
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Operation Dixie
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CIO's largely ineffective post WWII campaign to unionize southern workers
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Korean War
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Conflict touched off in 1950s when Communism North Korea invaded South Korea
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Alger Hiss
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Accused of espionage and Communist party membership
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Berlin Blockade
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A Berlin Wall set up to separate Berlin from Communism and Democrat society. US tore it down
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NATO
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Pledging mutual defense against any future Soviet attack in West Germany. First long term treaty between US and Europe
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Douglas MacArthur
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General in the Cold War where he launched his surprise landing in North Korea
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Jackson Pollack
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Led the New York school of painters. Thought that art was more about the process of creation, not the final product
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Jackie Robinson
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First black baseball player in the major leagues, played for the Dodgers
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Thomas Dewey
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Went against Roosevelt in election. Ideas were mainly cliche ideas
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Joseph McCarthy
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US Senator that announced that he had a list of 205 communists working for the State Department. Made guilt by accusation
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
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A Jewish Communist couple from NYC. Convicted of conspiracy to pass secrets concerning the atomic bomb to Soviets during WWII
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NSC- 68
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Called for the US to pursue a global crusade against communism in the name of freedom
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