Goal 11

A. “Duck and cover”: Was

suggested method of personal protection

against the effects of a nuclear detonation

which the United States government taught to citizens

during the Cold War.

B. Fallout Shelters:An enclosed space

specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive

debris from a nuclear explosion.

C. House Un-American Activities Committee

(HUAC): Created in 1938 to investigate alleged

disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those

organizations suspected of having Communist

ties.

D. Hollywood Blacklist:

Communists were said to be placing subversive

messages into Hollywood films. The most famous

group of blacklisted individuals was known as The Hollywood Ten, they refused to answer any questions from HUAC and were jailed by the

government and blacklisted by Hollywood.

A. Fair Deal :Harry Truman's

domestic program which built on

Roosevelt's New Deal. Truman believed that

the federal government should guarantee economic

opportunity and social stability.

B. AFL-CIO:A voluntary federation

of labor unions created in 1955 by the merger of the

American Federation of Labor and the

Congress of Industrial Organizations.

A. Taft-Hartley Act: amended much of the

National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act

of 1935, the federal law regulating labor

relations of enterprises engaged in interstate commerce. The act

established control of labor disputes by

enlarging the National Labor Relations Board.

B. National Highway Act: Authorized the

building of highways throughout the

nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the

nation's history.

A. Alger Hiss :A prominent US

government figure who was accused of, found guilty of, and

jailed for being a communist. He fought for his innocence until

his death.

B. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for espionage in Sing Sing Prison on 19 June 1953.

They had been convicted of giving American atomic

secrets to the Soviets during World War II.

Though the government was convinced of their

guilt, many people were not and the debate over their guilt or innocence did not stop with their

deaths.

C. National Security Act (1947):

mandated a major reorganization of the

foreign policy and military

establishments of the U.S. Government. The

act created the National Security

Council (NSC).

D. Détente:A permanent relaxation in

international affairs during the Cold War. It is a term usually associated with the relations between

America, Russia and China.

E. S.A.L.T. I and II:Strategic Arms

Limitation Talks – two rounds of talks and

agreements between the US and USSR

concerning nuclear arms.