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| 1249406091 | Otherwise called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, this gave veterans priority for many jobs, occupational guidence, a 52 week unemployment benefit buffer, and four years of futhered education or job training. | GI Bill | 1 | |
| 1249406092 | Established the International Monetary Fund to stabilize exchange rates by valuing other currencies in relation to the U.S. dollar, established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and laid the ground work for the General Agreement on Tariffs and trade, which would break up closed trading blocs and expand international trade. | Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 | 2 | |
| 1249406093 | Established the Council of Economic Advisers which helped formulate policies to maintain employment, production and purchase power, this was committed by the federal government to ensure economic growth. | Employment Act of 1946 | 3 | |
| 1249406094 | An American representative in Moscow who persuaded Truman to adopt a Containment policy against Russian expansionism. | George F. Kennan | 4 | |
| 1249406095 | A policy that would unite military, economics, and diplomatic strategies to isolate all Russian expansionism. | Containment | 5 | |
| 1249406096 | A plan that was to raise $400 million in military assistance for the Greek and Turkish governments to prevent communistic uprising. | Truman Doctrine | 6 | |
| 1249406097 | This unified the armed forces under one Department of Defense, created the National Security Council (which provided foreign policy info to the president), created the Central Intelligence Agency (which gather info abroad and engaged in covert activities to maintain national security). | National Security Act of 1947 | 7 | |
| 1249406098 | The European Recovery Plan, it's aim was to boost Western Europe's economy in order to promote American goods to be sold, thus boosting the U.S. as well. | Marshall Plan | 8 | |
| 1249406099 | A massive American relief effort aimed toward West Berliners in 1948 that tested the Russian blockade around West Berlin, which was terminated the next year. | Berlin Airlift | 9 | |
| 1249406100 | By the American involvement into this organization, the U.S. ended its isolationism. This was created to provide military assistance to its members. It was rivaled by the Warsaw Pact of Russia. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | 10 | |
| 1249406101 | Leader of the communist forces in China, he overpowered the unpopular, Nationalist leader Jiang Jieshi and established the People's Republic of China. | Mao Zedong | 11 | |
| 1249406102 | A secret report on the USSR's strength, this encouraged the U.S. to build up their nuclear arsenal, standing army to massive proportions, to increase the amount of covert actions done by the CIA, and to quadruple its defensive budget. | NSC-68 | 12 | |
| 1249406103 | Starting when communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea invading the Republic of Korea (south), the U.S. sent ground troops, under McArthur, to stop the spread of communism from enveloping all of Korean, resulting in China's involvement and eventual reestablishment of the division between North and South Korea. | Korean War | 13 | |
| 1249406104 | This outlawed the union membership only shop (closed shop), and secondary boycotts, meanwhile requiring union officials to sign loyalty oaths and permitted the president to call a cooling-off period to delay any strike that might endanger national safety/health. | Taft-Hartley Act | 14 | |
| 1249406105 | This reported in its "To Secure These Rights" the inequalities of Jim Crow America while supporting the reasons for the outlawing of lynching and poll taxes, the reasons for creating the Fair Employment Practices Commission, the reasons for desegregating the armed forces, schools, housing, and interstate transportation. | President's Committee on Civil Rights | 15 | |
| 1249406106 | An agenda that was to include civil rights, national health care legislation and federal aid to education. | Fair Deal | 16 | |
| 1249406107 | A multitude of security and loyalty checks where pressed down upon many American workers after Truman issued Executive Order 9835 (est. the Fed. Employee Loyalty Program) in order to uproot any traces of communism, causing fear grow within the nation. | Second Red Scare | 17 | |
| 1249406108 | A group that would hear court cases for suspected communists, which usually found its suspects guilty no matter what they pled. | House Un-American Activities Committee | 18 | |
| 1249406109 | Two men were accused of having affiliations with communism, each trying to prove that the other were guilty, finally ending with the first (name) being fined with perjury and a five year sentence in prision. | Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers | 19 | |
| 1249406110 | They were apart of the wartime spy network, were captured by the HUAC, and were the first Americans convicted of espionage. They were both sent to the electric chair. | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | 20 | |
| 1249406111 | A Republican senator who held a reputation of being a lier and a drunkard, his name was adopted as a synonym for personal attacks no individuals by means of indiscriminate allegations and unsubstantiated charges (such as publicizing a fake list of senators supposedly linked to the Communist party). | Joseph R. McCarthy | 21 | |
| 1249406112 | Required organizations deemed communist by the attorney general to register with the Department of Justice, and authorized the arrest and detention of any person that is believed to be engaging in acts of espionage or sabotage during a national emergency. | McCarran Internal Security Act | 22 |
