1.Anti-communist in the USA was started by Senator Joseph
McCarthy.
2.During the McCarthy witch-hunt many people were accused in
communist.
3.Today many countries support nuclear
4.He is noted for his strict to the rules.
5.These men were in the camps during the war.
6.The country is in a state of political.
7.President Noriega to the USA troops after the invasion of
Panama.
Task 3. Historical consequences. Match two statements from columns A and B into a compound sentence with a conjunction "so".
| A | B |
| 1) The USA did not want to interfere into the affairs of the European nations | a) they plotted a raid on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii |
| 2) The Japanese were not ready to a prolonged war | b) after the war working patterns changed |
| 3) Americans were afraid that Japanese immigrants could spy on their native country | c) the two nations soon sank into the Cold War |
| 4) War needs brought thousands of women and African-Americans to vacant jobs | d) the witch-hunt started |
| 5) The Soviet Union was seen as a global threat to project American power on a worldwide scale | e) during the war thousands of Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and interned into "relocation centers" |
| 6) The Cold War policy heightened anti-communist feelings in the USA | f) by Neutrality Acts the government tried to prohibit trade with the warring sides |
THE POST-WAR ERA
After the end of World War II, America entered a period of unprecedented economic growth that lasted for nearly twenty-five years. The economic boom was based on increasing output and increasing demand in automobile, housing and defense industries. The gross national product was constantly growing and more and more Americans could afford better housing, automobile and schooling for their children.
The era is much associated with the name of President Eisenhower, whose open personality seemed to symbolize the time. Changes in economy produced new patterns of living – in the 1950s, more and more middle-class Americans were moving to the suburbs, where children could grow "with grass in their pants". Suburban life, though very comfortable and well-arranged, was not available for all Americans – usually there lived only white middle-class, while thousands of blacks, Indians and Mexican-Americans suffered poverty.
In the 1950s, American pop-culture was developing – there appeared many fads and ideas that later became known all over the world.
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