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| 13902843373 | Yalta 1945 | major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany | 0 | |
| 13902843374 | United Nations | was created at the end of World War II as an international peacekeeping organization and a forum for resolving conflicts between nations | 1 | |
| 13902846601 | Potsdam Conference | was at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945 | 2 | |
| 13902846602 | Containment Doctrine | a strategic foreign policy, pursued by the United States in the late 1940s and the early 1950s in order to check the expansionist policy of the Soviet Union | 3 | |
| 13902849928 | George F. Kennan | an American diplomat and historian who was known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War | 4 | |
| 13902849929 | Marshall Plan | an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economic after the end of World War II | 5 | |
| 13902855681 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries | 6 | |
| 13902855682 | Berlin Airlift | In response to Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city | 7 | |
| 13902859597 | Warsaw Pact | was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and Seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War | 8 | |
| 13902859598 | Mao Zedong | a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976 | 9 | |
| 13902880327 | NSC-68 | was a 66 - page top secret National Security Council policy paper drafted by the Department of State and Department and President Harry S. Truman on April 7 1950 | 10 | |
| 13902880328 | "Fair Deal" | an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address, which characterized the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953 | 11 | |
| 13902880329 | HUAC | created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having | 12 | |
| 13902885364 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | a married couple convicted of conspiracy to spying in 1951, were put to death in the electric chair on June 9, 1953 | 13 | |
| 13902897584 | McCarthyism | a period of time in American history that saw Senator Joseph McCarthy produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950's in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government | 14 |
