US His. 3 Unit 2 Vocab Ch. 26 & 27
Across
- 4. One of the southern democrats that walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention to protest Truman's civil right policy.
- 7. Truman's economic program which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage and to provide housing to low income families
- 8. A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods
- 11. US government's plan to give up responsibility for Native American Tribes by eliminating federal economic support Native Americans by eliminating federal economic support, discontinuing the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands
- 12. Imaginary line that bisects Korea into North and South.
- 13. 327-day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948
- 15. A major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses
- 16. A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections
- 18. The making of public accusations of disloyalty without sufficient evidence, campaign against communism
- 19. Blocking of another nations attempt to spread its influence
- 20. The sharp increase in the US birthrate following WWII
Down
- 1. A Mexican laborer allowed to enter the US to work for a limited period of time
- 2. Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites
- 3. State of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and Soviet Union after WWII
- 5. US policy of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
- 6. Program under which the US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII
- 9. Renewal The tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods
- 10. US commitment to defend that Middle East against attack by any communist country
- 14. One of the unconventional, non-materialistic followers of the beat movement of the 1950s
- 17. Conflict between North and South Korea 1950-1953