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| Cold War | A conflict of ideas that does not include actual military combat such as the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over the spread of communism. |
| Potsdam Conference | Conference where the Allied Powers of World War II decided to divide Germany after the war ended. |
| Berlin Airlift | A period of time when the US and its allies dropped supplies for 327 days into Berlin because the Soviet Union closed off all roads to West Berlin. |
| Harry Truman | US President that developed the Truman Doctrine in hopes of keeping Greece and Turkey from becoming a communist nation. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States from 1953-1961 and developed the Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Truman Doctrine | A doctrine developed by President Harry Truman to give money to Greece in order to prevent the country from becoming a communist nation |
| Policy of Containment | Policy that said the US would not try to get rid of communism where it already existed, but the US would work to prevent the spread of communism. |
| Marshall Plan | Policy that worked to stop communism from spreading in Europe and offered aid to any country to help rebuild after the World War II. |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | The Eisenhower Doctrine extended the Marshall Plan to give aid to the Middle East to prevent the spread of communism. |
| House Un-American Activity Committee | A committee formed in 1938 whose purpose was to investigate possible communist activity. |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator who began to accuse many Americans in the government and Hollywood of being communists. |
| Korean War | War between democratic South Korea and communist North Korea in which the US sent troops to support the South Koreans as part of the Policy of Containment |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister that coined the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division between democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. |
