| A | B |
|---|
| Yalta Conference | Roosevelt,Churchill,Stalin make important decisions about Europe |
| Nuremberg trials | put high ranking Nazi's on trial |
| United Nations | dedicated to resolving international conflicts |
| Cold War | period of hostility between Western Powers and communist powers |
| containment | policy that attempts to stop spread of communism w/out ending it in already exsisting countries |
| Truman Doctrine | policy that attempts to contain spread of communism military aid |
| Marshall Plan | US could help rebuild wartorn Europe with loans and aid |
| NATO | an alliance of western powers |
| GI Bill of Rights | law offered veterans money for school,houses,farms, businesses |
| Fair Deal | Truman's plan for nation that included antilynching laws |
| 38th parallel | divided Korea after the war |
| hydrogen bomb | thermonuclear weapon that gets its power from splitting a hydrogen atom |
| arms race | growth in weapons based on the # of weapons an enemy country has |
| Sputnik | 1st artificial satellite launched by Soviet Union |
| brinkmanship | Cold War foreign policy to :get to the verge w/out getting into war" |
| baby boom | increase in # of US births during 50's and 60's |
| Sun Belt | southern area of US from Florida to California |
| urban renewal | rid innercities of slums and replace with low & middle class housing |
| beats | young people who were dissatisfied w/ American society in the 50's |
