| A | B |
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| Harry Truman | President 1945-1953, during the Chinese Civil War and Korean War |
| Josef Stalin | Soviet General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1922-1953 |
| Yalta Conference | Meeting between leaders of US, UK, and USSR to discuss post-war plans |
| Long Telegram | George Keenan's analysis of Soviet operations |
| Containment | The US policy of restricting the growth of communism and preventing a domino effect |
| Berlin Airlift | Continued aerial delivery of food and supplies to West Berlin after a Soviet blockade |
| Nikita Khruschev | General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953-1964 |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of the Communist Revolution in China |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Leader of the Chineese Nationalists forced to flee to Taiwan |
| Korean War | Conflict between northern communists and southern capitalists for control of the Korean Peninsula. The conflict ended in a stalemate |
| Douglas McArthur | Commander of US and UN forces in Korean War who publically criticized the president |
| Joe McCarthy | Senator of Wisconsin who investigated alleged communist sympathizers in the United States |
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee, known for investigating Hollywood for communists |
| Walt Disney | Cartoonist who testified before HUAC describing his fears that communists infiltrated his studio |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States from 1953-1961, during the U2 controversy. His military background gave him credibility to the Soviet Union |
| U2 Controversy | The debacle that unfolded after Francis Powers' spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace. |
| Military Industrial Complex | The power of military supply industries to make healthy profits on the US government and push America closer to war for economic purposes |
| Brinkmanship | The escalation of nuclear conflict to |
| Bay of Pigs | Invasion of Cuba by political exiles and CIA operatives that was stopped on the beach |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | A thirteen day standoff as the United States implemented a "quarentine" (blockade) of Cuba to prevent nuclear warheads from reaching the island. |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the United States from 1961-1963, during the Bay of Pigs debacle and Cuban Missle Crisis. His youthful image won support at home but made him appear weak to the Soviets. |
| Space Race | The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union to see which country would first put a human in space and on the moon. |
