| A | B |
|---|
| Containment | Truman's policy to keep communism from spreading |
| Truman Doctrine | $$ to Greece and Turkey to keep countries free from communism |
| Marshall Plan | $$ to western Europe to help rebuild after WWII |
| NATO | alliance of countries that believes an attack on one is an attack on all |
| Korean War | U.N. police action that the U.S. supported |
| Iron Curtain | metaphor to describe the domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union |
| Joseph Stalin | leader on Soviet Union until 1953 |
| Nikita Krushchev | leader of Soviet Union after 1953 |
| HUAC | Congressional committee that searched organizations for communists |
| Loyalty Review Board | went through the national government to look for communists |
| Hollywood 10 | group of people that plead the 5th rather than answer questions from HUAC |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | executed for espionage |
| Alger Hiss | guilty of perjury |
| Berlin Airlift | goods were dropped over West Berlin to keep the country alive |
| Joseph McCarthy | heightened fear of communism in the Senate |
| CIA | group used by Eisenhower to keep communism from spreading |
| Brinkmanship | to push the enemy to edge of war |
| Sputnik | satellite put in orbit by the Soviet Union |
| Explorer I | American satellite |
| U2 spy plane | was shot down over Soviet air space |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | pledged support to any Middle Eastern country that was resisting communism |
| Flexible Response | JFK's philosophy to fight the Cold War |
| Bay of Pigs | failed invasion of Cuba |
| Berlin wall | constructed in 1962 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | JFK established a blockade around Cuba to stop missiles from reaching the island |
| conformity | to look and live the same as other Americans |
| affluence | prosperity |
| anxiety | fear of communism and nuclear war |
| Cold War | competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union |
| Baby Boom | Growth in birth rates in the USA between 1946 and 1964 |
