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Chapter 14 Study Guide
Terms GI Bill Committee on Civil Rights States’ Rights Party United Nations Cold War “Iron Curtain” speech Containment Baby boom Marshall Plan NATO Brown V. Board of Education Truman Doctrine Holocaust Berlin Airlift 38th Parallel Warsaw Pact
People Strom Thurmond Henry Wallace Harry Truman Thomas Dewey Winston Churchill Douglas MacArthur
Questions 1. What were the Nuremberg Trials? What was the result of them? 2. List three things the GI Bill did for veteran soldiers instead of allowing them into the workforce. 3. What did “anti-Civil Rights” and “pro labor union” democrats do at the 1948 Democratic convention? 4. What was surprising about the election of 1948? 5. List the six different agencies/parts of the UN. Describe the role of the Security Council. 6. How does the Korean War begin? What does the UN do? How did it end? 7. Why does General MacArthur get fired by Truman? 8. What were two forms of entertainment that were popular in the 1950s? 9. Describe, in general, what life was like in the 1950s.
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