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| 5704444924 | Communism | An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property. |  | 0 |
| 5704444925 | Containment | The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s. |  | 1 |
| 5704444926 | Satellite Nations | A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation. |  | 2 |
| 5704444927 | Iron Curtain | A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe. |  | 3 |
| 5704444928 | Truman Doctrine | A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents. |  | 4 |
| 5704444929 | Marshall Plan | The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II. |  | 5 |
| 5704444930 | Berlin Airlift | A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948. |  | 6 |
| 5704444931 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked. |  | 7 |
| 5704444932 | Warsaw Pact | A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites. |  | 8 |
| 5704444933 | McCarthyism | The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communist in the early 1950s. |  | 9 |
| 5704444935 | 38th Parallel | Latitude line/boundary between North and South Korea. |  | 10 |
| 5704444936 | John F. Kennedy (JFK) | 35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall. |  | 11 |
| 5704444937 | Fidel Castro | Communist dictator of Cuba who came into power in 1959. |  | 12 |
| 5704444938 | Bay of Pigs | Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles. |  | 13 |
| 5704444939 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 13 Day period in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear missile were pointed at the United States in Cuba. |  | 14 |
| 5704444940 | Berlin Wall | A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West. |  | 15 |
| 5704444941 | Korean War | A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans. |  | 16 |
| 5704444942 | China | Asian nation that turns to Communism in 1949 after the Mao Zedong comes into power and fights with the North in the Korean War. |  | 17 |
| 5704444944 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader following World War II, dies in the middle of the Korean War in 1953. |  | 18 |
| 5704444945 | Harry Truman | 33rd President of the United States. He fired General Douglass MacArthur over disagreements on the Korean War. |  | 19 |
| 5704444946 | Mao Zedong | Communist leader of China who comes into power in 1949. |  | 20 |
| 5704444948 | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | Married couple who become the first U.S. citizens put to death for espionage in 1953. They were charged with passing Atomic Bomb secrets to the Soviets. |  | 21 |
| 5704444950 | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II. |  | 22 |
| 5704444960 | Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader from 1955-1964, responsible for putting missiles in Cuba. | 23 | |
| 5704444962 | Domino Theory | The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control | 24 | |
| 5704444963 | 17th Parallel | Line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam | 25 | |
| 5704444964 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam, led the fight against the French and then the Americans to reunify the country | 26 | |
| 5704444965 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Became president after Kennedy's assassination and reelected in 1964; committed the US more heavily to fighting in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident | 27 | |
| 5704444968 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 28 | |
| 5704512522 | Stalemate | result of the Korean War | 29 | |
| 5704516356 | college campuses | where most protests of the Vietnam War occurred | 30 | |
| 5704522160 | North took over the South | result of the Vietnam War | 31 | |
| 5704539588 | Watergate | scandal involving President Nixon forcing him to resign | 32 | |
| 5704542972 | Vietnamization | Nixon's policy of training South Vietnamese troops to fight so we could leave the war | 33 | |
| 5704563971 | guerilla warfare | tactic used by the North Vietnamese to fight the war | 34 | |
| 5704579005 | "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" | quote by Reagan during the war | 35 | |
| 5704594046 | increased military spending, rising nationalism in republics, glasnost and perestroika, | causes for the Soviet Union collapse | 36 | |
| 5704597220 | glasnost | Soviet policy meaning openness | 37 | |
| 5704604639 | perestroika | Soviet term meaning Economic restructuring | 38 | |
| 5704614280 | 2nd President to be impeached | Clinton | 39 | |
| 5704663905 | reunification of Germany, 1st Gulf war, collapse of Yugoslavia | Foreign Policy under George H W Bush | 40 | |
| 5704672274 | first war women could serve in combat | 1st Persian gulf war | 41 | |
| 5704681103 | Saddam Hussein Iraq invaded neighboring oil rich Kuwait | cause of 1st Gulf War | 42 | |
| 5704691291 | Bill Clinton Foreign Policy | lifted sanctions against South Africa, full relationship with Vietnam, signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade) | 43 | |
| 5704707749 | George W Bush Foreign policy | 9-11, war in Iraq, War in Afghanistan | 44 | |
| 5704714042 | Patriot Act | legal surveillance of citizens after 9-11 | 45 | |
| 5704727265 | 1994 Republican takeover | Republicans win Congressional seats during Clinton term with Contract with America | 46 | |
| 5704742775 | Fiscal Policy | Congress and the President set taxes and spending policy based on GDP, unemployment and inflation | 47 | |
| 5704758432 | Monetary Policy | Federal reserve policy on interest rates | 48 | |
| 5704776517 | Conservative Republicans policy | tax cuts, increased military spending, appoint justices with judicial restraint, reduce government programs | 49 |
