APUSH Chapter 25 Vocab

A meeting in Yalta of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in February in 1945, in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany, the status of Poland, the creation of the United Nations and Russian entry into the war against Japan

An international body agreed upon at the Yalta conference and counted at a conference in San Francisco in 1945, consisting of a general assembly, in which all nations are represented, and a security council of the five major allied powers- the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union- and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis

The July 1945 conference in which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone, or far eastern part of Germany. The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West

The basic US policy of the Cold War, which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries. Initially, containment focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, but in the 1950s it came to include China, North Korea and other parts of the developing world

President Harry S. Truman's commitment to "support free people's who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947, it became justification for US intervention into several countries during the Cold War

Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II

Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States, Canada and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat

A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance; it included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslavakia, East Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union

Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup

A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anti communism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home. Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Law passed by the republican controlled congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers

The domestic policy agenda announced by President Roosevelt in 1949. Including civil rights, health care and education reforms, Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress

A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for subversive activities

Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals

The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities

President Eisenhower's theory of containment, which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries

President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United Atates would actively combat communism in the Middle East

A failed US sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Casto's government

The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba

Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education, health and other projects in developing countries around the world

Lease of Communist Russia

American diplomat that proposed the idea of containment in an 8,000-word cable

Republican Senator who headed the fight against communism in America and aroused mass suspicion around communism

Joseph Stalin's successor- denounced Stalin and released his crimes

World War II war hero, Massachusettes senator, elected president 1960

Cuban who overthrew dictator- determined to keep Cuba out of Soviet orbit

Leader of communist Vietnam