| A | B |
| United Nation | 5 main purposes guide this |
| UN Security Council | police authority charged with preventing war, military force can be used to check aggression |
| UN General Assembly | all members are equally reprented to offer recommendations to settle disputes |
| UN Economic and Social Council | study and make recommendations concerning the world'd social, economic and cultural and health problems |
| International Court of Justice | answered legal quesitons between quarreling nations |
| UN Secretariat | administration |
| UN Trusteeship Council | look after the welfare of people living in colonial areas of the world |
| Turman Doctrine | created to contain the communists in Greece and Turkey |
| Marshall Plan | economic aid policy for rebuilding Europe after WWII |
| Sputnik | Russian Satellite |
| Israel | created as a Jewish homeland |
| Executive Order 9981 | signed by Truman integrating the armed forces |
| German sectors | U.S., France, Great Britain, USSR |
| Berlin Blockade | communists cut off supply routes to the city |
| Berlin Airlift | massive movement of food and supplies via planes |
| NATO | atomic shield protected countries allied to the U.S. |
| Warsaw Pact | atomic shild protecting the countries allied to the USSR |
| Hydrogen Bomb | 1000 times greater than the atomic bomb |
| Chinese Revolution | containment of communists in China failed |
| Nikita Krushchev | publicly attacked Stalin |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba |
| Mutual Terror | both sides have enough atomic weapons to destroy the other, keeping the cold war cold |
| Iron Curtain | communist countries in Eastern Europe |
| Douglas MacCarthur | General during the Korean Conflict who was fired by Truman for insubordination |
| Pusan Perimeter | area in Korea where the UN forces were pushed back |
| 38th Parallel | location where the Korean Conflict began and ended |
| Pumpkin Papers | microfilm found in a pumpkin |
| Alger Hiss | Secretary General of the UN accused of being a Soviet Spy |
| Richard Nixon | bashed communists during the Red Scare |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin who accused people in the army, Democratic Party, State Department and entertainment industry of being communist |
| Klaus Fuchs | British scientist who admitted giving USSR vital information on the A-bomb |
| David Greenglass | implicated the Rosenbergs |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | American communists charged with spying, executed |
| President Eisenhower | defended the army during the McCarthy hearings |
| Edward R. Murrow | journalist who attacked McCarthy |
| NASA | created in response to Sputnik |