American History Study Guide	Name ____________________
The Truman & Ike Years

People
Harry S. Truman
Thomas Dewey
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Alger Hiss
Whitaker Chambers
Richard Nixon
J. Edgar Hoover
Douglass MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Nikita Khrushchev
Bill Graham
Francis Gary Powers
Chuck Yeager
Elvis, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley & the Comets
James Dean, Marlon Brando & Marilyn Monroe
Yuri Gagarin
Gandhi
Emmett Till 
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jackie Robinson


Vocabulary
Demobilization
GI Bill of Rights
Election of 1948
Whistle-Stop Campaign
Iranian Crisis
Shah
Iron Curtain
Satellite Nations (Eastern Bloc)
Truman Doctrine 
Containment
Marshall Plan
NATO & Warsaw Pact
Chinese Civil War
Taiwan
Zionism & Israel
McCarthyism
The Pumpkin Papers
Joseph McCarthy
Witch hunts & Blacklists
Korean War
38th Parallel
Pusan, Inchon, Yalu River
Checkers Speech
Panmunjon
M*A*S*H
Bomb Shelters
MAD
Hungarian Uprising
Baby Boom
Suburbs & Levittowns
U-2 Incident
Rock-n-Roll
Beatniks
Sputnik
End of Colonialism (Congo & India)
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The Little Rock 9
Roswell, New Mexico


Essays
McCarthyism