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| GI Bill of Rights | A name given to the Servicemen's Readjustment ACt, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benedits for World War II veterans. |
| Jamers Farmer | Founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | An interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities. |
| Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) | An organization that pushed the U.S government to compensate Japanese American's for property they had lost when they were interned during World War II. |
| Satellite nation | A country that is dominated politcally and economically by another nation. |
| Containment | The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence--especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s. |
| Cold War | The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. |
| Truman Doctrine | A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal of external opponents. |
| Marshall Plan | The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II. |
| Berlin airlift | A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948. |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | A defensive military alliance founded in 1949 by ten Wester European countries, the United States, and Canada. |
