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| 6069206699 | Yalta Conference | A meeting with President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in February 1945, in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany, the status of Poland, the creation of the United Nations, and Russian entry into the war against Japan. Stalin wanted pro-Soviet governments in Eastern Europe and Roosevelt wanted self-determination and democratic elections. | 0 | |
| 6069206700 | United Nations | An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference, and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945, consisting of a General Assembly, in which all nations are represented, and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. | 1 | |
| 6069208544 | Potsdam Conference | The July 1945 conference in which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone, or far eastern part of Germany. The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. | 2 | |
| 6069208545 | Containment | The basic U.S. policy of the Cold War, which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries. Initially, it focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, but in the 1950s it came to include China, North Korea, and other parts of the developing world. | 3 | |
| 6069208546 | Truman Doctrine | President Harry S. Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947, it became the justification for U.S. intervention into several countries during the Cold War. It was caused by Britain's financial decline-they could no longer support the anticommunists in Greece. | 4 | |
| 6069208547 | Marshall Plan | Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II. It benefited the industrial economy in both Western Europe and the United States but intensified Cold War tensions. | 5 | |
| 6069213527 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States, Canada, and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat. The Warsaw pact was created as a response to the creation of this. | 6 | |
| 6069213528 | Warsaw Pact | A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance; it included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. NATO and this alliance created a division in Europe. | 7 | |
| 6069213529 | NSC-68 | Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup. | 8 | |
| 6069216143 | Cold War Liberalism | A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home. Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s. | 9 | |
| 6069216144 | Taft-Hartley Act | Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers. It also had unions rid of communists. | 10 | |
| 6069216145 | Fair Deal | The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1949. Including civil rights, health care, and education reform, Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress. It included national health insurance, aid to education, a housing program, expansion of Social Security, a higher minimum wage, and a new agricultural program. It fared poorly because of the Republicans in Congress. | 11 | |
| 6069219220 | Loyalty-Security Program | A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities. It was intended to apply only to actions against the United States (treason, sabotage, etc.) but it allowed anyone to be accused of subversion for the slightest reason. | 12 | |
| 6069223830 | HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee) | Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals. It helped to spark the Red Scare with its work in Hollywood. | 13 | |
| 6069223831 | "New Look" | This was President Eisenhower's defense policy that reduced the amount of conventional forces in the Army, increased the production of hydrogen bombs, and created a massive arms race with the USSR. | 14 | |
| 6069225601 | Domino Theory | A belief by Eisenhower that if Vietnam were to fall to the USSR, the rest of Southeast Asia would. This was the US' justification for the Vietnam War. | 15 | |
| 6069225602 | Eisenhower Doctrine | This stated that the US would assist any nation under threat of aggressive, armed, "International Communism." | 16 | |
| 6069225603 | Bay of Pigs | This was a US-supported invasion of Cuba designed to overthrow communist Fidel Castro. The invasion was a disaster due the troops were poorly trained, and JFK's refusal to launch air strikes. | 17 | |
| 6069228145 | Cuban Missile Crisis | This was a standoff between the USSR and the US involving Soviet nuclear ICBMs being stockpiled on Cuba. The US responded by placing a naval blockade around Cuba. The conflict was resolved once Khruschchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba, the US agreed to not invade Cuba, and the US removed its missiles from Turkey. | 18 | |
| 6069228146 | Peace Corps | This program allowed young American volunteers to help with education, health, and othe rcivil service projects in developing nations across the globe. | 19 | |
| 6069228147 | Joseph Stalin | This was the ruthless, brutal Soviet Premier of the USSR. He was an ally during WWII, but immediately after the war, he turned against the US, claiming that communism and capitalism were "incompatible" and that WWIII between the two was inevitable. He exploited Eastern Europe's crippled state after WWII in order to create a protective barrier between the West and East. | 20 | |
| 6069230282 | George F. Kennan | This man was the author of the "Long Telegram" that warned the president of the USSR's expansionism and encouraged the "containment" of communist aggresion. | 21 | |
| 6069230283 | Joseph McCarthy | This WI Senator claimed that 205 communists worked for the State Department. The list was unsubstantiated. He targeted Hollywood actors and accused them of being communists. He also was the lead prosecutor in the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg case. | 22 | |
| 6069232434 | JFK | This man was the US President that orchestrated the Bay of Pigs invasion. directed the US out of the Cuban Missile Crisis, encouraged lunar landing research, founded the Peace Corps, and increased military support to South Vietnam. | 23 | |
| 6069232435 | Fidel Castro | This man was the communist dictator of Cuba. He closely worked with the USSR, and was a leading force behind the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 24 | |
| 6069235588 | Ho Chi Minh | This man was the leader of the communist group the "Vietnminh" that captured independence from Japan in North Vietnam. Because he was communist, the US did not support his rule, and allowed the French to control the country. Once the French lost control of the country, the US rigged the South Vietnamese presidential election between this man and Ngo Dinh Diem. | 25 | |
| 6136848461 | Nikita Khruschev | Guy who replaced Stalin and built the Berlin Wall | 26 |
