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1. Containment correct answers Containment is a U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping other countries to resist Soviet advances or communist aggression This was the foreign policy used throughout the Cold War. America tried to avoid war while trying to stop communism. If the US did this right, they believed that the Soviet Union would eventually fall apart on its own. 2. G.I. Bill of Rights (definition and effects) correct answers This was a bill for WW2 Veterans giving them benefits such as insurance and pensions for their service in the war. The GI bill provides funds for veterans to attend college and get better jobs after the war. In 1947 nearly half of college students were veterans. 3. Marshall Plan correct answers At the end of World War Two the United States sent economic assistance to rebuild the European nations that were affected during WWII George C. Marshall was the creator of this program. This plan was offered to all nations, but was rejected by the Soviet Union and satellite nations. It pumped billions of dollars in supplies, machinery, and food. 4. NATO correct answers The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a mutual military/defense alliance with Western Europe. They agreed to come to the aid of any member country that was attacked. The US could no longer be isolationists. It was the first time the US committed to maintaining peace in Europe. In 1955, West Germany was allowed to rearm and join NATO. This worried the Soviet Union and they created their own military alliance in Eastern Europe called the Warsaw Pact. 5. Brinkmanship correct answers This was going to the brink of war to force the other side to back down. It was considered dangerous. Ex: Taiwan Crisis: China threatened to liberate Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalists that escaped there and began firing upon other nearby islands. After hinting at US involvement and the use of nuclear weapons, China backed down. 6. Interstate Highway Act correct answers Eisenhower pushed for the federal highway act to build up to 40,000 miles of highway according to Eisenhower, the highway would eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of "speedy, safe transcontinental travel." During World War II, Eisenhower had been stationed in Germany, where he had been impressed by the network of high-speed roads known as the Reichsautobahn. After he became president in 1953, Eisenhower was determined to build the highways that lawmakers had been talking about for years. 7. White flight correct answers Movement of middle class whites away from the city and towards owning homes in the suburbs, leaving the city to be inhabited by poor minorities. working and middle-class white people move away from racial-minority suburbs or inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs. The FHA often refused blacks home mortgages for private home purchases, thus limiting black mobility out of the inner cities.