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| 6913984641 | Teheran Conference | December, 1943 - A meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin in Iran to discuss coordination of military efforts against Germany, they repeated the pledge made in the earlier Moscow Conference to create the United Nations after the war's conclusion to help ensure international peace. | 0 | |
| 6913984642 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 1 | |
| 6913984643 | Marshall Plan | Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947, he proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. | 2 | |
| 6913984644 | National Security Act | Passed in 1947 in response to perceived threats from the Soviet Union after WWII. It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council. | 3 | |
| 6913984645 | GI Bill | law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations | 4 | |
| 6913984646 | "Fair Deal" | Truman's extension of the New Deal that increased min wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing | 5 | |
| 6913984647 | Taft-Hartley Act | a 1947 law giving the president power to halt major strikes by seeking a court injunction and permitting states to forbid requirements in labor contracts that force workers to join a union. | 6 | |
| 6913984648 | Dixiecrats | southern Democrats who opposed Truman's position on civil rights. They caused a split in the Democratic party. | 7 | |
| 6913984649 | Strom Thurmond | He was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the presidency of the United States in 1948 under the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party banner. This group of "Dixiecrats" broke off from the democrats after Truman's acceptance speech at the 1948 democratic convention in which he asked for an end to segregation | 8 | |
| 6913984650 | Inchon Landing | The landing of UN troops, by General Douglas MacArthur, behind enemy lines at Inchon in Korea. In order to push back the North Korean troops. | 9 | |
| 6913984651 | 38th Parallel | latitudinal line that divided North and South Korea at approximatly the midpoint of the peninsula | 10 | |
| 6913984652 | Douglas MacArthur | (1880-1964), U.S. general. Commander of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and administered the ensuing Allied occupation. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea 1950-51, before being forced to relinquish command by President Truman. | 11 | |
| 6913984653 | Yalta Conference | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War | 12 | |
| 6913984654 | Cold War | The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another. | 13 | |
| 6913984655 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | 14 | |
| 6913984656 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | 15 | |
| 6913984657 | Berlin Blockade/Airlift | In 1948, Berlin was blocked off by the Soviet Union in order to strangle the Allied forces. In order to combat this, the United States began to airlift supplies into Berlin. | 16 | |
| 6913984658 | HUAC | The House Committee on Un-American Activities was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda, | 17 | |
| 6913984659 | Alger Hiss | A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon. | 18 | |
| 6913984660 | Joseph McCarthy | 1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists | 19 | |
| 6913984661 | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg | an engineer and his wife who were accused, tried, and executed in the early 1950s for running an espionage ring in New York City that gave atomic secrets to the Soviet Union; long considered unjustly accused to victims of the Red Scare, recent evidence suggests that Julius was indeed a Soviet agent. | 20 | |
| 6913984662 | McCarran Internal Security Act | 1950 - Required Communists to register and prohibited them from working for the government. Truman described it as a long step toward totalitarianism. Was a response to the onset of the Korean war. | 21 | |
| 6913984663 | Army-McCarthy Hearings | 1954 televised hearings on charges that Senator Joseph McCarthy was unfairly tarnishing the United States Army with charges of communist infiltration into the armed forces; hearings were the beginning of the end for McCarthy, whose bullying tactics were repeatedly demonstrated | 22 | |
| 6913984664 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations formed this military mutual-defense pact. In 1955, the Soviet Union countered NATO with the formation of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance among those nations within its own sphere of influence. | 23 | |
| 6913984665 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | 24 | |
| 6913984666 | NSC-68 | A National Security Council document, approved by President Truman in 1950, developed in response to the Soviet Union's growing influence and nuclear capability; it called for an increase in the US conventional and nuclear forces to carry out the policy of containment | 25 | |
| 6913984667 | Brinkmanship | A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests | 26 | |
| 6925479888 | Detente | Arms Control, 1969-1979. Between the late 1960s and the late 1970s, there was a thawing of the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. This 'thawing" took several forms, including increased discussion on arms control. | 27 | |
| 6925622885 | Cuban Missile Crisis | In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war when President Kennedy insisted that Nikita Khrushchev (leader of the USSR) remove the 42 missiles he had secretly inserted in Cuba. The Soviets eventually did so, nuclear war was averted, and the crisis ended. | 28 | |
| 6925626415 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure. | 29 |
