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| 6564935762 | Yalta Conference | In February 1945, Wilsonian priciples yielded to U.S.-Soviet power realities | 0 | |
| 6564935763 | United Nations | A General Asembly, in which all nations would be represented and a Security Council composed of the five major Allied powers and the seven othernations elected on a rotating basis | 1 | |
| 6564935764 | Potsdam Conference | Harry Truman suggested confronting Stalin. Postsdam believed that a revived German Economy was essential | 2 | |
| 6564935765 | Containment | American officals developed a clear strategy toward the Soviet Union | 3 | |
| 6564935766 | Truman Doctrine | In a speech on March 12, he asserted an American responsibility "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure | 4 | |
| 6564935767 | Marshall Plan | A massive infusion of American capital to rebuild the European economy. It also urged the nations of Europe to work out a comprehensive recovery program based on US aid | 5 | |
| 6564935768 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | A pact between 12 nations- Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United States. An armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all. | 6 | |
| 6564935769 | Warsaw Pact | In 1955, a military alliance for Eastern Europe that included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union | 7 | |
| 6564935770 | NSC-68 | In April 1950, they delivered a report. The document marked a decisive turning point in the U.S. approach to the Cold War | 8 | |
| 6564935771 | Cold War liberalism | Truman and the Democratic Party forged it. Preserved the core programs of the New Deal welfare state, developed the containment policy to oppose Soviet influence throughout the world, and fought so called aubversives at home | 9 | |
| 6564935772 | Taft-Hartley Act | An overhaul of the 1935 National Labor Realations Act | 10 | |
| 6564935773 | Fair Deal | Truman propsed it. 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 called attention to civil rights | 11 | |
| 6564935774 | Loyalty-Security | An Executive order by Truman. The order permitted officals ro investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities | 12 | |
| 6564935775 | House Un-American Activities Committee | Took the concept of disloyalty farther. Was launched in 1938 helpwd sparked the Red Scare | 13 | |
| 6564935776 | "New Look" | Defense policy, the Eisenhower administration stepped up production of hydrogen bomb and developed long range bombing capablities | 14 | |
| 6564935777 | Domino theory | If the French failed, all non-Communist governments in the region would fall like dominoes | 15 | |
| 6564935778 | Eisenhower Doctrine | States that American forces would assist any nation in the region that required aid against overtarmed aggression from any nation controlled by International Communism | 16 | |
| 6564935779 | Bay of Pigs | On landing on Cuba on April 17, 1961, the force of 1,400 was crushed by Castro's troops | 17 | |
| 6564935780 | Cuban missile crisis | The risk of nuclear war was greater during this time than at any other time in the Cold War, prompted a alight thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations | 18 | |
| 6564935781 | Peace Corps | Kennedy launched a series of bold nonmilitary initiatives. This one embodied a call to public service | 19 | |
| 6564935782 | Joseph Stalin | Met at the Yalta. He insisted the Russian national security required pro-Soviet rulers. Dictator of Russia during World War 2. | 20 | |
| 6564935783 | George F. Kennan | Proposed that they only way to defeat the Soviet Union was to contain it and be patient | 21 | |
| 6564935784 | Nikita Khrushchev | Stalin's successor who denounced Stalin. He called for peaceful coexistence, but went back and crushed the Hungarians | 22 | |
| 6564935785 | John F. Kennedy | He became president in 1960. He planned the Bay of Pigs. He avoided the Cuban missile crisis | 23 | |
| 6564935786 | Fidel Castro | Dictator of Cuba. Hoped to join the communist community | 24 | |
| 6564935787 | Ho Chi Minh | Leader of Vietnam. The U.S. hoped to prevent his victory | 25 | |
| 6564935788 | Joesph McCarthy | In 1950 he told the American people that he had a list of all the Communist of America. Though he never showed the list | 26 |
