| A | B |
|---|
| cold war | Competition btw. U.S. and Soviet Union for global power |
| United Nations | founded to promote peaceful cooperation among the nations of the world |
| War Crimes trials | In Germany and Japan, principle of individual responsibility for wartime conduct |
| Postdam Conference | 1945, Meeting with U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union that laid the foundation for Germany's Postwar Status |
| Occupation ofGermany | leaders devided it into 4 occupation zones |
| Satellite Nations | Countries under the control of the Soviet Union |
| Containment | Cold War strategy to stop the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | U.S. policy of giving military and financial aid to those resisting communist rule |
| Marshall Plan | 1948, U.S. program that provided $12 billion in economic aid to Western Europe after WWII |
| NATO | 1949, alliance whose member nations agreed to protect one another in the event of attack |
| CIA | federal agency created to gather information overseas |
| Rosenbergs | Julis and Ethel, gave Soviets atomic-energy secrets during WWII |
| Korean War | UN forces fought N. Korean Chinese troops, June 25, 1950 |
| H-Bomb | weapon approximately 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb |
| Duck and Cover | civil defense, how to protect yourself from a bomb |
| Brinkmanship | policy promoted by Secretary of State Dulles during the 1950's |
| Sputnik | 1957, satallite launched by the Soviet Union that led the U.S. to focus more on technological development |
| NASA | federal agency established in 1958 to direct American Space Exploration |
| U-2 plane | high-altitude spy plane |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger |
| Brown vs Board | 1952, Supreme court case challenging segregation in public schools, it ruled unequal |
| Bay of Pigs | led to the Cuban missile crisis, invasion of Cuba that failed |
| Berlin Wall | concrete barrier built in 1961 to cut off traffic btw. East Berlin and West Berlin |
