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50's and 60's
American Destiny Chapters 28 & 29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What provided veterans with education and training programs to help continue their education, learn trades, or start new businesses? | GI Bill of Rights |
| What federal law outlawed boycotts and obliged union leaders to declare they were not communist? | Taft-Hartley Act |
| The policy concerning stopping the spread of communism in Asia and Europe was known as what? | Containment |
| What foreign policy, proposed by President Truman, provided financial aid to Greek and Turkish governments under the threat of communists rebels | Truman Doctrine |
| The massive infusion of American aid to rebuild Europe after WWII was called.. | The Marshall Plan |
| In response to a Soviet blockade of the city the U.S. delivered supplies to the people by air. This effort became known as... | The Berlin Airlift |
| Truman's program for expanded economic opportunity and civil rights was known as the.. | Fair Deal |
| What was the military mutual-defense pact formed by the United States, Canada, and European nations? | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| The Soviet Union began the space race with on a high note because of their successful launch of.. | Sputnik |
| The generation that grew up during the Great Depression before going on to fight in WWII became known as what because of their significant achievements? | The Greatest Generation |
| What did East Germany build to separate itself from the noncommunist West Germany? | Berlin Wall |
| The America-organized effort to invade Cuba and remove Fidel Castro from power that led to a fiasco when 1500 Cuban exiles were waiting became known as... | Bay of Pigs Fiasco |
| What was the showdown between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Soviets secret supplying of nuclear missiles in Cuba called? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| What was Lyndon B. Johnsons legislative agenda focusing on poverty and the results of poverty called? | Great Society |
| As part of Johnsons Great Society he enacted what act that created a mixture of programs to help those in poverty? | Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 |
| As part of the Great Society, President Johnson created what health insurance program for people over the age of 65? | Medicare |
| During the 1950's the noncommunists who rejected conventional standards became known as what? | Beat School |
| What congressional action gave the President authority to deploy U.S. troops in Southeast Asia that led to the escalation (and U.S. involvement) of the Vietnam war? | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| What treaty, signed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, restricted the testing and deployment of nuclear missiles? | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) |
| What was the complex scandal during the election of 1974 that later led to the fall of the Nixon administration? | Watergate Scandal |
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