US History Chapter 23 terms
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| 69859084 | Harry Truman | Became president on April 12, 1945. (FDR's death) | 0 | |
| 69859085 | United Nations | Idealistic effort to maintain peace, began on April 23, 1945 | 1 | |
| 69859086 | "Cold War" | United States vs. Soviet Union | 2 | |
| 69859087 | "Iron Curtain" | The separation of the Communist East from the free West | 3 | |
| 69859088 | Containment | Truman's policy of providing military and economic support to halt the Soviet expansion | 4 | |
| 69859089 | Truman Doctrine | Policy of aiding countries fighting Communist takeovers | 5 | |
| 69859090 | Marshall Plan | US spent $13 billion on restoring the economy in Western Europe | 6 | |
| 69859091 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization Mutual defense pact made by ten Western European countries, the US, and Canada | 7 | |
| 69867288 | Warsaw Pact | Military alliance between Communist countries to counter the NATO | 8 | |
| 69867289 | Berlin Airlift | Truman gave food and supplies to West Berlin by airlift, caused the Soviet Union to end their blockade of West Berlin | 9 | |
| 69867290 | Chiang Kai Shek | A nationalist whose rival was Mao Zedong. Created a civil war in China | 10 | |
| 69867291 | Mao Zedong | Rival of Chiang Kai Shek | 11 | |
| 69867292 | 38th Parallel | Place where Communist North Korea and Non Communist South Korea split | 12 | |
| 69867293 | Douglas McArthur | America's war hero of the Pacific in WWII, given control over the UN forces during the Korean War | 13 | |
| 69867294 | Inchon | Seaport halfway up the western coast of Korea, General McArthur led an amphibious attack here | 14 | |
| 69867295 | Limited War | Principle of Truman, Only objective was total victory over the enemy | 15 | |
| 69867296 | Dwight Eisenhower | Became president after Truman in 1952 | 16 | |
| 69867297 | John Kennedy | Followed Eisenhower in presidential order | 17 | |
| 69867298 | "Peaceful Coexistence" | Goal of total victory changed to achieving some sort of agreeable accomodation between the US and Communist countries | 18 | |
| 69867299 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader, led a guerilla war against the French | 19 | |
| 69867300 | Ngo Dinh Diem | South Vietnam president, Non Communist | 20 | |
| 69867301 | Domino Theory | Eisenhower's rationale, if one communist country in southeast Asia fell, the others would fall right after it | 21 | |
| 69867302 | Fidel Castro | Cuban dictator, created a Communist state only ninety miles from the coast of Florida. | 22 | |
| 69867303 | Bay of Pigs | US invades Cuba, embarrassed | 23 | |
| 69867304 | Cuban Missile Crisis | US blockaded Cuba in order to force them to remove their missiles | 24 | |
| 69867305 | Berlin Wall | Constructed by the East German government | 25 | |
| 69867306 | Fair Deal | Federal spending designed to insure jobs for the unemployed, shot down by conservatives | 26 | |
| 69867307 | Taft Hartley Act | Passed over Truman's veto, banned Union membership as a requirement for employment | 27 | |
| 69867308 | National Security Act | CIA and National Security Council created, a civilian cabinet position set over the army, navy, and air force was created, and this act created the post of secretary of defense | 28 | |
| 69867309 | Henry A. Wallace | Fired from Democratic party but was supported by the Progressive party | 29 | |
| 69867310 | Strom Thurmond | Nominated by Democrats for 1948 election | 30 | |
| 69867311 | "Dixiecrats" | State's rights party ticket, what Thurmond believed in | 31 | |
| 69867312 | Thomas Dewey | Republican candidate in 1948 election, governor of NY | 32 | |
| 69867313 | 2nd Red Scare | Fear of Communism growth in the United States | 33 | |
| 69867314 | Alger Hiss | Accused of passing secret documents to the Soviets ten years previous to the accusation | 34 | |
| 69867315 | Richard Nixon | Congressman who sent Hiss to jail | 35 | |
| 69867316 | Joseph McCarthy | Boldy stated a list of names within the State Department that were Communists. Investigated and concluded that McCarthy's accusations were a fraud | 36 | |
| 69867317 | "McCarthyism" | Word used to describe his alleged use of lies, distortion, and innuendo | 37 | |
| 69867318 | William Buckley Jr. | Wrote "God and Man at Yale", founded the "National Review", opposed the growth of welfare, rejected government regulation of economy, decried weakness in the face of Communist aggression | 38 | |
| 69867319 | John Birch Society | Founded by Robert Welch, proclaimed that the Communist movement had affected public officials as well as the patriotic spirit of America | 39 | |
| 69867320 | Adlai Stevenson | Democratic candidate in 1952 election | 40 | |
| 69867321 | "Dynamic Conservatism" | Eisenhower's philosophy Conservative towards money, and liberal concernin human beings | 41 | |
| 69867322 | Interstate Highway System | Interstates, main arteries of highway transportation in US | 42 | |
| 69867323 | New Frontier | Kennedy's legislative program based on the saying "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" | 43 | |
| 69867324 | Peace Corps | One of Kennedy's most popular programs, government project that sent skilled volunteers oversees to aid underdeveloped nations | 44 | |
| 69867325 | "The Affluent Society" | Written by John Kenneth Galbraith | 45 | |
| 69867326 | "Baby Boom" | Massive rise iin the birth rate lasting until 1964 | 46 | |
| 69867327 | Civil Rights Movement | Push for the equality of races | 47 | |
| 69867328 | Brown vs. Board of Education | Public schools has labeled blacks as inferior, stated that no insitution had a place in American society | 48 | |
| 69867329 | Bus Boycott | Result of Rosa Parks arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, over 90% of the city's blacks then boycotted buses | 49 | |
| 69867330 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Leader of the fight against Montgomery's bus system, Baptist pastor, Advocated Non Violent resistance | 50 | |
| 69867331 | March on Washington | Largest civil rights protest in US history, where Martin Luther King said "I have a dream" | 51 | |
| 69867332 | Ecumenical Movement | Goal was to promote greater unity among professing Christians, to make one big church | 52 | |
| 69867333 | Billy Graham | First time evangelist for youth, gained worldwide fame | 53 |
