| 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 |