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37 Cards in this Set
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when did the american economy grow dramatically
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after 1950
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besides giving educational benefits to returning veterans, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the GI Bill of Rights) was partly intended to prevent what?
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returning soldiers from flooding the jog market
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what fueled the postwar economic boom?
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the American economy surged onto a dazzling plateau of sustained growth that was to last virtually uninterrupted for 2 decades
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what caused the rise of big commercial agribusiness and spelled the near- disappearance of the traditional family farm?
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the mechanization and consolidation of agriculture
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what happened to labor unions in the booming postwar industrial factories
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they declined
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what group was among the greatest beneficiaries of the postwar war II economic boom
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D. women
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which regions had gained most in population and new industry after WWII?
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the south and the west
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what drew millions of white and black americans to the sunbelt after WWII?
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job opportunities, warm climates, and improved race relations
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what did the economic and population growth of the sunbelt rely most on
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relied more than the north on government spending
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what areas of financial support did the federal government give to the sunbelt region
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aerospace and defense industries
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describe the population of the big cities and the suburbs after WWII
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highly populated by minorities, suburbs were mostly white
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what sometimes encouraged residential segregation in the cities and new suburbs?
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government policies
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name two federal policies that contributed to the postwar migration from the cities to the suburbs?
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housing-mortgage tax deductions and federally built highways
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what caused much school-building in the 1950's, a "youth culture" in the 1960s, and a growing concern about "aging" in the 1980s?
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the "baby boom" expansion
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what was the primary reason that FDR made concessions to Stalin at the Yalta Conference?
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he wanted the Soviet Union to enter the war against Japan
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before WWII, how had the USSR and the US viewed the rest of the world?
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they were inward looking and isolated from international affairs
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what was a crucial early development of the cold war?
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germany was divided into east germany under soviet control and pro american west germany
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who was the tough leader whose violation of agreements and insistence on establishing a sphere of influence in eastern europe helped launch the cold war?
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joseph stalin
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what broke a soviet ground blockade and established american determination to resist further soviet advance?
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the american airlift to west berlin
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what was the oil-rich middle eastern nation that became an early focal point of Soviet- American conflict?
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iran
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who was the US specialist on the USSR and originator of the theory that we should contain the Soviet union?
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george kennan
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what led to organization of the permanent NATO alliance?
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the threat of soviet invasion or US isolationists withdrawal from europe
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why was the NATO alliance a historic transformation in American foreign policy?
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it committed the US to a permanent peacetime alliance in defense of other nations
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what were president Harry Truman's most valuable qualities as a leader?
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personal courage, authenticity, and sense of responsibility for big decisions
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what led to the proclamation of the truman doctrine and hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for anticommunist governments?
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the british withdrawal from communist-threatened Greece
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why was the marshall plan developed
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america sponsored effort to provide funds for the economic relief and recovery in europe
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what was the fundamental purpose of NATO?
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to protect europe against the Soviets
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what aroused republican charges that democrats truman and Acheson had "lost China"
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Mao Zedong's defeat of Jiang Jieshi
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who was the former vice president of the US whose 1948 campaign as a pro-Soviet liberal split the democratic party?
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henry wallace
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who was the southern segregationist who led "dixiecrat" presidential campaign against truman in 1948?
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J. Strom Thurmond
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on what was the postwar hunt for communism subversion concentrated and why?
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rooting out american communists from positions in government and teaching, where they had allegedly served as spies or pro-soviet agents
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who was the young california congressman whose investigation of alger hiss spurred fears of communist influence in america?
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richard nixon
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who was the wisconsin senator whose charges of communist infiltration of the US government deepened the anti-red atmosphere of the early 1950s
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Joseph McCarthy
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why did truman fire general MacArthur?
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he wanted to expand the korean war to china
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what was the immediate cause of the korean war
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North Korea invaded South Korea
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causes of the war
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overall cause- mutual distrust between the two superpowers
an underlying causes- systemic conditions the total collapse of Germany, Japan, and France second underlying cause is opposing ideology two ideas that are opposed, capitalism and communism third underlying cause is national security system the soviets wanted a defense perimeter the US wants a global open-door trade fourth is miscalculation in diplomacy both sides suspect the other of spying and being aggressive/threatening |
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US beliefs relevant to the development of the Cold War
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soviets intend to dominate the world
monolithic- all communists’ movements or countries are controlled by the soviets to advance soviet interests domino principle- if one person went communist all of their neighbors would also become communist (also known as chain reaction) containment- the US has to not allow the soviets to expand in anyway; George Keenan coined this word. this becomes the US major defense policy |
