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| 155361763 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | |
| 155361764 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | |
| 155361765 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | |
| 155361766 | Marshal Plan | program designed to rebuild postwar Europe and keep it from becoming communist | |
| 155361767 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | |
| 155361768 | Berlin Airlift | Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city | |
| 155361769 | GI Bill | law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations | |
| 155361770 | Fair Deal | President Truman's economic and social program which added to minimum wage and social security | |
| 155361771 | House on Un-American Activities Committee | Formed in 1938 to investigate Communist activities in the US. | |
| 155361772 | Hollywood Ten | Group of 10 actors and producers who were blacklisted for being communists although most were innocent | |
| 155361773 | Joseph McCarthy | US senator; claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence; discredited by the US senate | |
| 155361774 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations, led by the United States, helped South Korea. | |
| 155361775 | 38th Parallel | Official dividing line between North and South Korea. | |
| 155361776 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | |
| 155361777 | CIA | Central Intelligence Agency - American spy agency | |
| 155361778 | KGB | soviet secret police and spy agency | |
| 155361779 | brinksmanship | the wilingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down | |
| 155361780 | hydrogen bomb | One thousand more times more powerful than the atomic bomb. Truman ordered the development of it to outpace the Soviets. | |
| 155361781 | Sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. | |
| 155361782 | NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration...created to get the US to the moon | |
| 155361783 | Interstate Highway Act | 1956 - Eisenhower's 20 yr plan to build 41,000 miles of highway including the Thruway | |
| 155361784 | Bay of Pigs | Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government | |
| 155361785 | Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba | |
| 155361786 | Cuban Missle Crisis | The Soviet Union was secretly building nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, which could have been used for a sneak-attack on the U.S. The U.S. blockaded Cuba until the U.S.S.R. agreed to dismantle the missile silos. | |
| 155361787 | Warren Commision | appointed to inverstigate President Kennedy's assassination | |
| 155361788 | Lee Harvey Oswald | assassinated JFK | |
| 155361789 | Johnson's Great Society | set of programs proposed by President Johnson to eliminiate poverty and racial injustice. | |
| 155361790 | Medicare | a federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older | |
| 155361791 | Medicaid | a federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them | |
| 155361792 | Civil Rights | the rights of people to be treated without unreasonable or unconstitutional differences |
