| A | B |
|---|
| Harry Truman | president, 1945-53 |
| Joe McCarthy | senator who hunted for Communists |
| Berlin | contested capital of Germany |
| NATO | military alliance of democracies |
| Warsaw Pact | USSR and its satellites |
| Hydrogen bomb | deadly new weapon |
| arms race | military competition for new weapons |
| Korea | where the Cold War turned hot |
| Truman Doctrine | US promise to help democracies |
| More bang for the buck | slogan of the Republicans |
| Alger Hiss | convicted of perjury |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | convicted spies |
| containment | Truman's policy on Communism |
| Vietnam | site of a long civil war |
| agonizing reappraisal | tactic of re-examining policy |
| sputnik | first artificial satellite |
| ICBM | multi-stage rocket |
| Fidel Castro | Communist dicator of Cuba |
| Nikita Khrushchev | leader of USSR after Stalin |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader of China |
