Chapter 35 Guided Notes

Vocabulary Section
Taft-Hartley Act GI Bill

Containment Doctrine

United Nations (UN)

Benjamin Spock

McCarthyism

Sunbelt

Operation Dixie

Marshall Plan

Army-McCarthy Hearings

Levittown

Employment Act of 1946

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Berlin Airlift

Baby boom
Executive Order 9981
 Fair Deal Korean War

George F. Kennan George C. Marshall

Yalta Conference
Bretton Woods Conference

National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68)

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Reinhold Niebuhr

Joseph McCarthy

Cold War

Level 1 Questions (1-2 sentences)

In what ways was the Taft-Hartley Act a reactionary gesture to the New Deal programs of the 1930s?

How did the GI Bill transform the labor market in the United States?
What other factors contributed to the sustained economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s?

In what ways did regional American demographics shift during the 1950s and 1960s? Why did the Sunbelt attract so many new
residents?

What agreements were made at the Yalta Conference? How did it set the stage for the Cold War?

Why were the International Monetary Fund and World Bank established?

How were the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Plan instrumental in carrying out the policy of containment?
What were the stated goals of Truman’s Fair Deal program? In what ways was it similar to FDR’s New Deal and TR’s Square
Deal?

Why did the United States assist South Korea in fighting North Korea?

How did similarities and differences both cause the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to have difficulties dealing with each other?

Why did Truman fire MacArthur?

Describe the policies followed by Truman in relation to the Soviets.

Level 2 Questions (SAQ style answers)
How might one argue that the decline of union membership after 1950 was due to economic prosperity?

How was the United Nations a different kind of vision for international diplomacy than Wilson’s League of Nations?

Did the U.S. government go too far trying to prevent communist infiltration?

What was the impact of the Korean War on the Cold War?