| A | B |
|---|
| Truman Doctrine | said the U.S. would help nations resist communist takeovers |
| containment | policy of keeping communism from spreading; began with the Truman Doctrine |
| Marshall Plan | gave Western Europe $12.5 billion to rebuild after WWII |
| Berlin Airlift | provided supplies to keep West Berlin free |
| NATO | a mutual defense pact formed in 1949 to protect Western Europe |
| Douglas MacArthur | general fired in Korea by Pres. Truman |
| Alger Hiss | former State Dept. official accused of being a communist spy |
| Richard Nixon | became famous by prosecuting the Alger Hiss case |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator who led a Red Scare in the 1950s |
| Thomas Dewey | Expected to win against Truman in 1948 but he lost |
| Dixiecrats | Southern Democrats who deserted Truman over the civil rights issue in 1948 |
| Korean War | called a "Police Action" |
| Sputnik | first satellite in space in 1957; launched by the USSR |
| NASA | created as a reaction to Sputnik |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Congress gave Pres. Johnson broad authority to escalate the Vietnam War |
| Tet Offensive | turning point of the Vietnam War |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's idea of letting the South Vietnamese do more of the fighting |
| Kent State | site of a Vietnam War protest where 4 students were shot and killed |
| Dien Bien Phu | after the French lost this battle in 1954, they pulled out of Vietnam |
| Viet Cong | South Vietnamese who supported the North Vietnamese communists |
| Gamal Nasser | Egyptian leader who nationalized the Suez Canal |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | said the U.S. would help Middle Eastern nations fight against communism |
| brinkmanship | going to the edge of war to get your opponent to back down |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | an example of the dangers of brinkmanship |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba |
| Monroe Doctrine | Pres. Kennedy said the USSR violated this by putting missiles in Cuba |
| U-2 incident | involved an American spy plane being shot down over the USSR |
| Bay of Pigs | a U.S. backed invasion of Cuba in 1961 that failed |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader who put missiles in Cuba in 1962 |
| Rosenbergs | accused of giving atomic secrets to the USSR and executed in the 1950s |
| Army-McCarthy hearings | televised investigation that led to Joe McCarthy's downfall |
| Loyalty Oaths | Truman required these from all government workers in 1947 |
| Pentagon Papers | exposed by Daniel Ellsberg; showed the mishandling of the Vietnam War in 1971 |
| Ngo Diem | leader of South Vietnam assassinated in 1963 |
| Ho Chi Minh | communist leader of North Vietnam |
| John Foster Dullers | Sec. of State under Eisenhower; created idea of brinkmanship |
| Taft-Hartley Act | outlawed the closed shop for unions and was vetoed by Truman |
| National Defense Education Act | created after Sputnik to improve American schools |
| Red Scare | a fear of communism |
| Lyndon Johnson | President who escalated the Vietnam War |
| Yalta Conference | at this meeting FDR agreed to let the USSR control Eastern Europe if they would hold free elections |
| Domino Theory | the idea that if we let one nation fall to communism then other nations nearby would also fall |
| Monroe Doctrine | Pres. Kennedy said the USSR violated this by placing missiles in Cuba |
| War Powers Act | this tried to limit the President's ability to wage war without Congressional approval after the Vietnam War |
| "Police Action" | Korea was called this because Congress never declared war |
| G.I. Bill | this provided money for WWII soldiers to go to school and buy homes |
| McCarthyism | name for the Red Scare in the early 1950s |
| Iron Curtain | name for the imaginary dividing line between Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe after WWII |
