Harry S. Truman
33rd president of the US, 24th VP
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian
Douglas MacArthur
American general, UN general, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army
Dean Acheson
American statesman and lawyer, US Secretary of State
Joseph McCarthy
American politician who served as Republican US Senator from State of Wisconsin
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American communists who were executed in 1953 after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage
Benjamin Spock
American politician whose book Baby and Child Care is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time
J. Strom Thurmond
American politician who served as govenor of S.C. and as US Senator
Henry Wallace
33rd VP, 11th secretary of Agriculture
Thomas Dewey
Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who failed in his effort to deny FDR a fourth term
Adlai Stevenson
Governor of Illinois and Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956 against Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Famous WW2 General. President 1953 - 1960. Known for ending korean war, making interstate high system, "Modern Republican
Richard M. Nixon
37th president. Only president to resign from office.
Yalta Conference
Crimea Conference. Wartime meeting.
Cold War
War of words and threats" between the US and USSR from 1945-1990. It was a political and economic stuggle between these nations.
United Nations
organization founded after World War II to promote international peace and cooperation.
Nuremberg Trials
Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes
Iron Curtain
Symbolized boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW2
Berlin Airlift
airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
Containment
A goal to stop the spread of communism. The US had to use military and non military actions to stop the spread.
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
Marshall Plan
a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
National Security Act
1947; changed War Dept -> Dept of Defense; single budget for Dept of Defense; created NSA and CIA
White Flight
working and middle-class white people move away from racial-minority suburbs or inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved
Taft-Hartley Act
US Federal Law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions
House Committee on Un-American Activites
Investigative committee of the US State House of Reps
McCarran Act
required all communist organizations to register with the government and to provide lists of members
Point Four Program
This was a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Truman in his inaugural address on January 20, 1949. It took its name from the fact that it was mentioned as the fourth among the foreign policy objectives mentione
Fair Deal
President Truman's economic and social program
Thirty-eighth Parallel
Truman's line that was not to be passed in Korea
NSC-68
review of security policy, advocated large conventional and nuclear forces
Inchon Landing
The landing of UN troops, by General Douglas MacArthur, behind enemy lines at Inchon in Korea. In order to push back the North Korean troops.
Sunbelt
states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative