Established in 1949, NATO - an alliance to defend members from the Soviet Union - stands for what?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
President of the United States from 1945-1953
Harry Truman
The United States was a Capitalist or Communist economy?
Capitalist
Chartered in 1945 this is an intergovernmental organization tasked with maintaining international peace and security, cooperation and friendly relations among nations.
United Nations
Campaign against "alleged" Communism in the US government and other institutions carried out by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the late 1940s-early 1950s.
McCarthyism (Second Red Scare)
HUAC stood for what? It was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of American citizens and organizations.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Massive U.S. airlift of food, water and medicine to citizens of West Berlin from June 1948-May 1949.
Berlin Airlift
This "plan" aided Western Europe with 12 billion dollars of economic assistance after World War II.
Marshall Plan
Guarded concrete barrier or "wall" that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961-1989.
Berlin Wall
Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II and after (died in 1953)
Joseph Stalin
The Soviet Union was Communist or Capitalist?
Communist
This "pact" was signed between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states in May 1955.
Warsaw Pact
Name given to the latitude 38 degrees north that divides North and South Korea
38th Parallel
The boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Iron Curtain
1947 American foreign policy doctrine that provided aid to Turkey and Greece and included the policy of containment (halting the spread of communism)
Truman Doctrine
Who were the two major superpowers to emerge after World War II?
The United States and the Soviet Union
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