| A | B |
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| Cold War | Post World WarII conflict between the U.S. and U.S.S.R |
| "Iron Curtain" | Term created by Winston church hill to characterize the divide between the U.S.S.R's satellite nations and the rest of Europe. |
| Taft-Hartley Act | Limited power of unions by allowing the president to order workers back to work for a 90 day "cooling off" period while bargaining continued. |
| Munich analogy | Comparison of stalin to Hitler that emphasixed the need to take a strong stand against Staling's aggressive |
| Containment | Theory of applying counter at any point at which the U.S.S.R showed signs of military encoroachment. |
| "Long Telegram" | Kennan's plan or American Oregin plicy luring the postwar era: focused on the theory of containment. |
| Marshall Plan | Recovery plan of Europe designed to eliminate the economics discontent communitst of ten exploited |
| NATO | Mutual defense organization and the 1st time the U.S. had entered a peacetime foreign alliance |
| Atomic Energy Commission | Civilian organization created to control all atomic materials |
| HUAC | House Committee on Un-American Activited;investigated conmunist influence particulary in the film industry |
| Blacklist | Prevention of communists from finding work in the film industr despite a lack of proof that they were subversive in anyway |
| Robert Taft | Consercative who wanted to dismatle the new deal organization after the warr |
| Alger Hiss | State department official brought to trial of for lying about passing secrets to the soviet union, fed the rise of fears of the communist threat |
| Thomas Dewey | Republican predidental candidate and presumptive victor over truman in 1948; actually defeated bu over 2 million votes. |
| Hungary | motion invaded by soviet army in 1947 |
| George Kennan | Author of the long telegram and the policy of containment |
| George Marshall | Creator of the marshall plan |
| Syngman Rhee | Dictator of South Korea |
| Iran | First site of Cold War conflct when the soviets invaided but then withdrew in 1946 |
| Greece and Turkey | First nations to recieve aid from U.S. in order to avoid communist infictraction |
| Henry Wallace | 1948 presidential candidate who wanted to pursue new deal reforms even more viourously then tryman |
| Berlin Blockade | Soviet move to block westen access to west berlin; truman responded by airlilting supplies in for almost a year until stalin lidtd the blockade |
| Bernard Baruch | Stanch anti communist whose lan for an international atomic energy commission were not accepted bu the soviets |
| Iran | New nation by Jewish refugees and recognized by Truman in 1946 |
| Leslie Groves | Head of the Manhattan project; she gave information about a Candadian aomic spy delivering secrets to the Soviet Union |
| Winston Churchill | Warned that the soviets dropped an "Iron Curtain" between their nations and the free world |
