Honors American Cultures
Mr. Hammer
Cold War Review Sheet
Review session a portion of the period Wed. March 3rd, and after school, Wed. March 3 rd.
Test - Thursday March, 4th
IMPORTANT CONCEPTS:
Post war tensions between the US & USSR….
Economic problems following World War II…
The issues associated with demobilization…
The cause and results of the Korean conflict…
Truman/ MacArthur controversy…
Truman's policy of a limited war in Korea…
Results of the 1946 mid-term elections…
Republicans, Progressives, Dixiecrats and Democrats in the 1948 Presidential Election
Fair Deal: Success v. Failure…
IMPORTANT TERMS:
The “American Century”.
UN General Assembly
Hollywood Ten
Baby Boom
Marshall Plan.
Taft-Hartley Act
80th Congress
"Do-nothing Congress"
Berlin Blockade
GI Bill of Rights
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
IMPORTANT PEOPLE:
Thomas Dewey
Syngman Rhee
Adali Stevenson
Sung Il Kim
Joseph McCarthy
Strom Thurmond
George Marshall
Whittaker Chambers
Winston Churchill
UN Security Council
K1 C2
Dixiecrats
NSC-68
McCarran Act
HUAC
NATO
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
"iron curtain"
“Pumpkin Papers”
Joseph Stalin
R.M. Nixon
Douglas MacArthur
The Rosenbergs
D.D. Eisenhower
Henry Wallace
Chaing-Chi-Shek
George Kennan
Alger Hiss
Roy Cohn