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| 6582464274 | Cold War | After WWII, the US and Soviet Union became rivals. The two Superpowers never confronted each other directly in open warfare, but their global competition led to frequent conflicts around the world. |  | 0 |
| 6582464275 | Joseph Stalin | Brutal dictator over the Socvet Union. |  | 1 |
| 6582464276 | Gulags | Forced labor camps in Siberia where Stalin's critics anad opponents were often sent. |  | 2 |
| 6582464277 | Yalta | 1945 meeting place of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin to plan the reorganization of Europe and end to the war. |  | 3 |
| 6582464278 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 4 | |
| 6582464279 | Potsdam Conference | Truman and Stalin met six months after Yalta and serious differences emerged. Began the start of the Cold War. |  | 5 |
| 6582464280 | Iron Curtain | Stalin created a wall of satellite countries in Eastern Europe as a buffer against any future invasions. Placed local communists in power in all the governments of Eastern Europe and cutoff trade and contact between Easter and Western Europe. |  | 6 |
| 6582464281 | Containment | American leaders did not attempt to overturn Communism where it already existed, but resolved to prevent it form spreading further. | 7 | |
| 6582464282 | Truman Doctrine | Truman promised to support any country fighting Communism. | 8 | |
| 6582464283 | Marshall Plan | US proposal that massive aid be given to the countries of war torn Western Europe and help rebuild their economies in order to keep them from turning Communist. It Included aid to Germany and Italy. |  | 9 |
| 6582464284 | Berlin Airlift | Berlin, the old capita of Germany, was in the Soviet zone of East Germany. Berlin was divided 4 ways. When the Western Zones merged, the Soviets blockaded West Berlin by closing off all highway and railroad links. The Western Allies began a massive airlift to feed and supply the city. |  | 10 |
| 6582464285 | North Atlantic treaty Organization (NATO) | The US, Canada and 10 Western European countries formed a pact based on collective security. |  | 11 |
| 6582464286 | Collective Security | Each NATO member pledged to defend every other member if attacked. | 12 | |
| 6582464287 | Warsaw Pact | The Soviets responded to the creation of NATO by creating an alliance with its Eastern European satellites. |  | 13 |
| 6582464288 | Mao Zedong | Communist leader that overthrew the Nationalist government in China in 1949. |  | 14 |
| 6582464289 | Red China | Mainland China controlled by Communists. | 15 | |
| 6582464290 | Taiwan | After defeat by Mao, the Nationalist leaders fred to the tiny island off the coast of China. | 16 | |
| 6582464291 | Korean War | In 1950, North Korean forces invaded South Korea in an attempt to unify the country under Communist rule. |  | 17 |
| 6582464292 | Deterrent | The Soviet Union was supposed to be deterred from attacking because if it did, the US would destroy it with nuclear weapons. | 18 | |
| 6582464293 | Sputnik | In 1957, the Soviets launched the first man-made satellite into space. Ushered in the "Space Race" on fear that the Societs might use missiles to send nuclear weapons to the US. |  | 19 |
| 6582464294 | Loyalty Review Board | Used to investigate individual "un-American" activities, such as participation in the American Communist Party. | 20 | |
| 6582464295 | House Un-American Activities Committee | Congressional committee that performed its own loyalty checks by questioning those with possible Communist sympathies. those identified as present or former members of the Communist Party were often "blacklisted" and lost their jobs. |  | 21 |
| 6582464296 | Rosenberg Trial | In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union about making the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and executed as spies. |  | 22 |
| 6582464297 | Venona Papers | In 1977, the National Security Agency released documents revealed the identities of several Americans who had spied for the Soviet Union, including Julius Rosenberg. It proved that the Soviets had in fact penetrated American government, science and industry during the Cold War. |  | 23 |
| 6582464298 | McCarthyism | In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy conducted a Communist witchhunt making many allegations without evidence. |  | 24 |
| 6582464299 | Dwight Eisenhower | In 1952, the former commander of Allied western forces in Europe was elected President. |  | 25 |
| 6582464300 | John Foster Dulles | Secretary of State under President Eisenhower who sought to contain Communism by preventing the Soviets from gaining any additional influence. |  | 26 |
| 6582464301 | Eisenhower Doctrine | Extended the containment policy to any Middle Eastern nation defending against Communism. |  | 27 |
| 6582464302 | Interstate Highway Act (1956) | Eisenhower created a system of federal highways. |  | 28 |
| 6582464303 | Suburbs | After WWII, city dwellers moved just outside the cities into planned communities with grassy yards and fresh air, while still able to commute into the cities for work. |  | 29 |
| 6582464304 | Jonas Salk | In 1953, he created the first vaccine for polio. |  | 30 |
