After reading Chapter 26, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

GI Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)

Bretton Woods Agreement, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank

Employment Act of 1946 and the Council of Economic Advisers

Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe

George F. Kennan and the containment policy

Winston Churchill's iron curtain speech

Atomic Energy Act and the Atomic Energy Commission

Truman Doctrine

George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan

Berlin blockade and airlift

North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact

General Douglas MacArthur

National Security Council and NSC-68

Taft-Hartley Act

To Secure These Rights

J. Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats

Henry A. Wallace and the Progressive party

Thomas E. Dewey

the conservative coalition in Congress

House Un-American Activities Committee

Federal Employee Loyalty Program

Smith Act and Dennis v. United States

Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and Richard M. Nixon

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism

McCarran Internal Security Act

McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act

Adlai Stevenson

Los Alamos, other western atomic facilities, and environmental damage