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| 518891811 | DEAN ACHESON | ..., He was Secretary of State under Harry Truman. It is said that he was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than those that the two were named for. | 0 | |
| 518891812 | AMERICAN GI FORUM | ..., It originally focused on veteran's issues such as payment of pensions and access to health care. But the group quickly expanded to other issues such as job discrimination, housing segregation, poll taxes, voter registration, and segregated schools. | 1 | |
| 518891813 | CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) | This group was created after WW II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad, conspiracy, and meddling as well. | 2 | |
| 518891814 | CONTAINMENT | a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully | 3 | |
| 518891815 | THOMAS E. DEWEY | ..., The Republican presidential nominee in 1944, Dewey was the popular governor of New York. Roosevelt won a sweeping victory in this election of 1944. Dewey also ran against Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election. Dewey, arrogant and wooden, seemed certain to win the election, and the newspapers even printed, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" on election night. However, the morning results showed that Truman swept the election, much to Dewey's embarrassment. | 4 | |
| 518891816 | DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER | WW11 GENERAL WHO WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN THE 1952 ELECTION | 5 | |
| 518891817 | HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE(HUAC) | committee formed in the House of Representatives in the 1930s to investigate radical groups in the United States; it later came to focus on the threat of communism in the United States during World War II and the Cold War | 6 | |
| 518891818 | GEORGE F KENNAN | Believed the US should resist Soviet attempts to expand power and influence. "the father of containment" | 7 | |
| 518891819 | LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN-AMERICAN CITIZENS (LULAC) | Created to combat the discrimination that Hispanics face in the US, helped advance civil rights for all Americans | 8 | |
| 518891820 | DOUGLAS MACARTHUR | US GENRAL WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF UN FORCES IN KOREA 1950-51 BEFORE BEING FORCED TO RELINQUISH COMMAND BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN. | 9 | |
| 518891821 | MAO ZEDONG | CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER WHO DEFEATED NATIONALISTS DURING CIVIL WAR. | 10 | |
| 518891822 | MARSHALL PLAN (EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM) | UNITED STATES PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC AID FOR THE RECOUNSTRUSTION OF EUROPE(1948-1952) | 11 | |
| 518891823 | McCARRAN- WALTER ACT OF 1952 | limited immigration based on ethnicity, but made allowances in the quotas for persons displaced by WWII and allowed increased immigration of European refugees. Tried to keep people from Communist countries from coming to the U.S. People suspected of being Communists could be refused entry or deported. | 12 | |
| 518891824 | JOSEPH R McCARTHY | SENATOR FROM WISCONSIN WHO LED A CRUSADE TO INVESTIGATE OFFICIALS HE CLAIMED WERE COMMUNISTS | 13 | |
| 518891825 | KIM II-SUNG | created the Communist government of North Korea and has existed since World War II and ruled North Korea as a dictator today | 14 | |
| 518891826 | NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS | Movements that arise in developing nations to expel colonial powers. | 15 | |
| 518891827 | NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947 | created the Department of Defense, which was housed in the Pentagon and headed by a new cabinet position, the Secretary of Defense, under which served civilian secretaries of the army, navy, and air force and created the National Security Council (NSC) to advise the president on security matters and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to coordinate the government's foreign fact-gathering (spying) | 16 | |
| 518891828 | RICHARD M NIXON | He was a committee member of the House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities (to investigate "subversion"). He tried to catch Alger Hiss who was accused of being a communist agent in the 1930's. This brought Nixon to the attention of the American public. In 1956 he was Eisenhower's Vice-President. | 17 | |
| 518891829 | NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) | Defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the US and Canada | 18 | |
| 518891830 | PRESIDENTS COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS | Pushed for southern anti-lynching laws and tried to register more black voters, but was mostly symbolic and had little real effect | 19 | |
| 518891831 | JACKIE ROBINSON | The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans. | 20 | |
| 518891832 | SERVICEMEN'S READJUSTMENT ACT (GI BILL) | Provided for college or vocational education for returning WWII veterans as well as one year of unemployment compensation. Also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start business. | 21 | |
| 518891833 | JOSEPH STALIN | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 22 | |
| 518891834 | TAFT-HARTLEY ACT | THE LAW REDUCED THE POWER OF ORGANIZED LABOR AND MADE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO ORAGANIZE WORKER, STATES COULD NOW PASS "RIGHT TO WORK" LAWS WHICH BANNED THE PRACTICE OF REQUIREMENT ALL WORKER O JOIN A UNION ONCE A MAJORITY HAD VOTE FOR IT. | 23 | |
| 518891835 | HARRY S TRUMAN | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb. WANTED COOPERATION BETWEEN THE US AND USSR | 24 | |
| 518891836 | TRUMAN DOCTRINE | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | 25 |
