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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