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An alliance of the United States and nations in western Europe to defend against aggressive Soviet military action.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Location of the meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill to determine Post-War goals and objectives for the rebuilding of Europel
What is the Yalta Conference?
America's offering all European nations, including the Soviet Union, generous funding to rebuild their economies so long as the money was spend on goods made in the United States.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The symbolic growing barrier between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The United Nations organization that the United States requested to enact strict limitations on raw materials used to make bombs.
What is the UN Atomic Energy Commission?
Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy proclaimed that he had a list of hundreds of these individuals who worked inside the United States government.
What are communist sympathizers?
Location of the meeting between Harry Truman, Clement Atlee, and Joseph Stalin to finalize post-war plans for Europe.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The Soviet Union's response to the United States' Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe.
What is the Molotov Plan?
Foreign Policy whose purpose is to support free peoples everywhere who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by out pressures?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Following the development of the hydrogen bomb, foreign policy became based on this military belief.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
These Americans were convicted of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union and executed as traitors to the United States.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
The first "hot war" between American and Communist forces.
June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union imposes a blockade on traffic and trade to West Berlin resulting in this Allied response.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia that lacked political, educational, and industrial infrastructure.
What are Third World nations?
The historical period following the development of Atomic Energy and Atomic Weapons.
What is the Atomic Age?
State Department official who was exposed as a communist sympathizer at the Yalta Conference.
Who is Alger Hiss?
Line that divided North and South Korea.
What is the 54th Parallel?
The Soviet response the US formation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The practice of public accusing someone of subversive activities without evidence to support charges.
What is McCarthyism?
This executive department organized training materials for civilians to work with the armed forces and emergency services during a war or natural disaster.
What is the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)?
This United States intelligence agency specialized in counter terrorism and international espionage.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
Was the location of a brutal Soviet response to anti-communist revolt in Eastern Europe in 1956.
What is the Hungarian Revolution?
Anti-Communist hearings were held in these US House of Representatives meetings.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
The idea that if one country was allowed to fall to communism that the neighboring countries would also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
The Soviet Union's launch of this satellite began the Space Race with the United States.
What is Sputnik?