Post WW2 America

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Returning veterans could take advantage of the ____________, which gave war veterans no or low interest loans on homes and tuition to get a higher education.

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GI Bill

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Levittown is an example of the growth of new communities called ___________.

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suburbs

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All of the following were policies followed by President Eisenhower (in the 1952 Pres. campaign) EXCEPT: Modern Democratization, expanding Social Security, Interstate highway system, liberal in human affairs, but conservative in economic ones.

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Modern Democratization

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The Red Scare of the 1950's was named after this Senator, who gave a speech that he had a list of 205 members of the government who were communist sympathizers.

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McCarthy

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Senator McCarthy gave a speech that he had a list of 205 members of the government who were communist sympathizers. He made many, often reckless, accusations and increased hysteria of the ________________. Also known as McCarthyism.

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Red Scare

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FBI director J. Edgar Hoover strengthened this and tasked it with holding public hearings to investigate anyone suspected of subversion or Communist sympathies: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Senate Anti-Communist Group (SACG), McCarthy Red Scare Initiative (MRSI), National Security Council (NSC)

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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

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What does this source mean "To Patronize REDS"?

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to support Communists

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After the botched CIA Bay of Pigs invasion, tension between the US & Communist Cuba under Castro escalates → nuclear missiles spotted in Cuba and after a tense standoff and US-imposed quarantine, the USSR agrees to remove missiles from Cuba & US removes missiles from Turkey. Closest we've ever been to nuclear war! What is this event called?

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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What is this speech about? "At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life...I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures...I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes."

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Truman about needing to help Western Europe rebuild

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What does this map show?

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Cuban Missile Crisis