| A | B |
|---|
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | executed for transmitting atomic secrets to the Soviets |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Nationalist leader of China forced to lead exile gov.t in Taiwan |
| George Marshall | developed a plan for restoring the postwar economics of Western Europe |
| Mao Zedong | became the communist ruler of the People's Republic of China |
| Alger Hiss | government official accused of spying for the Soviets in the 1930s |
| George Kennan | devised the containment policy to stop the spread of communism |
| Dean Acheson | presided over NATO negotiations |
| Joseph McCarthy | senator who charged many government officials were communists |
| Truman Doctrine | warned the Soviets against expansion |
| satellite nations | communist countries surrounding the Soviet Union |
| 38th paarallel | boundary between North and South Korea established by the United Nations |
| Yalu River | boundary between North Korea and China |
| McCarthyism | a national crusade to hunt down communists in the Truman administration |
| containmnet | plan to stop the spread of communism |
| self-determination | the right of the people to choose their own leaders in a free election |
| Cold War | a power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Dixiecrats | southern state's rights democrats who sought to protect white interests |
| Taft-Hartley | limited the power of labor unions and outlaawing such practices as the closed shop |
| Fair Deal | Truman's social and domestic proposals for extending Roosevelt's policies |
| covert | secret operations conducted by the CIA to gather intelligence |
| Dardanelles | strategic waterway cnnecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea |
| NATO | treaty organization whose members are protected by the American nuclear shield |
| 1950 | Korean conflict began |
| 1948 | Truman reelected as President |
| 1952 | Eisenhower elected President |
| 1953 | Korean conflict ended in a stalemate |
| Berlin blockade | Soviet military action that stopped US support in West Berlin |
| Berlin airlift | US air support for West Berlin |
| 1949 | Berlin blockade and airlift |
| 1951 | Truman dismissed Gen. MacArthur after he disagreed publicly with Truman's war policies |
| H-bomb | weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb, tested by US first |
| United Nations | world organization of countries organized in 1945 |
| Security Council | five major members of the UN with veto power |
| GI | government issue (military supplies and support) |
| Loyalty Review Board | Truman's response to McCarthy's charges of communists in the government |
| Warsaw Pact | organization formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites to oppose NATO |
