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| Truman Doctrine | President Harry Truman's policy to help foreign nations resist communism by providing them aid |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader that took control of China in 1949 |
| Containment policy | The United State' policy of stopping the spread of communism |
| Joseph McCarthy | senator from Wisconsin who lead a series of inquiries into the spread of communism in the US,he claimed that many government employees were communists |
| Harry S. Truman | US president who decided to drop the atomic bomb that ended WWII, stood against communism |
| Douglas MacArthur | US military leader in WWII and Korean War who criticized the US president and was fired |
| Iron Curtain | the boundary between the Soviet-controlled nations and the US-controlled nations |
| baby boom | a term that describes the period of population growth during the 1950's, caused the building and sale of many new homes |
| Marshall Plan | a program created to promote economic recovery in Europe after WWII |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and other communist nations |
| Cold War | a term that describes the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII, characterized by the build-up of arms |
| Fair Deal | domestic program that extended the reforms of the New Deal |
| William Levitt | US businessman who built mass-produced homes int he suburbs after WWII |
| NATO - North American Treaty Organization | a military alliance between US, Canada and ten European countries formed in 1949, changing US foreign policy by mandating invovment in European affairs. |
| Korean War | US enters into this conflict to stop the spread of communism by forcing the invading North Koreans out of South Korea |
| Berlin Airlift | The U.S. sent food and fuel to West Berlin. |
| Sputnik | The first artifical satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 |
| Soviet blockage of Berlin | Stalin was worried that a united West German would be a threat to the Soviet Union |
