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Taft-Hartley Act
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1947; outlawed "closed" shop; made unions liable for damages caused by jurisdictional disputes; required union leaders to take non-communist oath
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Levittown
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first was built by the Levitt Brothers on NY Long Island, erecting hundreds of dwellings in one project, very monotonic
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UN Security Council (Big Five)
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US, Brit, USSR, China, France: all must have unanimous consent
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Containment
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policy post WWII in order to contain communism where it is, and to not let it expand
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Marshall Plan
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Called for spending 12.5 billion dollars over 4 years in 16 cooperating countries to help restore the western european economy
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader in China who took power in 1949 after the Nationalist Government under Jiang was forced to flee to Taiwan
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Joseph McCarthy
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During the Eisenhower Administration, he was the Wisconsin republican senator, who was highyl anticommunist, and his rhetoric spread rapidly serving to scare America in "seeing red"
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Thomas Dewey
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presidential candidate in the 1944 and 1948 elections but never won; NY governor
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Douglas MacArthur
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commander of UN forces in Korea, disagrees with Truman b/c wants a fuill out war
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Rosa Parks
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1955 Montgomery Alabama took a seat in the "whites only" section of the bus and was arrested
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Sit-Ins
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Where blacks would have a large group sit in segregated places to make a point; first significant one was in greensborough, NC 1960
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Dienbienphu
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location of the Battle of Dien Bien between Vietmin and France which ended France's involvement in indo china and lead to the partition of vietnam into north and south; 1954
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John Foster Dulles
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secretary of state under eisenhower 1953-59; agressvie stance against comm. and supported french in vietnam
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Nikita Kruschev
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successor of Stalin in Sov Union; estabished warsaw pact; initiated deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba that lead to cuban missile crisis; supported egypt in 1956 suez canal crisis; rejected eisenhower's "open skies" proposal; started space program for soviets
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Sputnik
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first artificial satellite put into orbit in 57 by soviets; marked beginning of space race
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ICBM
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intercontinental ballistic missiles; R-7 and atlas were first USSR and USA made
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J. Edgar Hoover
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founder of the FBI; director under Kennedy who resisted Robert Kennedy's reforms of the FBI
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Robert S. McNamara
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head of the defense dept. under Kennedy; collaborated witht eh idea of "flexible response" while rejecting massive retalliation
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New Frontier
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Kennedy's presidential plan; peace corps; medical assistance for the aged and increased federal aid to eductation but failed to expand quickly; govt intervention to stop the recession; a disappointment to civil rights but did establish EEO in 1962; set pace for Great Society
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Flexible Response
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retaliation against massive retaliation; to be able to have other defense options, not just nuclear in order to target enemy's military force, not civilians
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