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elected Vice President in Roosevelt's 4th term, Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.

Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

leader of Manhattan project

The Democratic candidate who ran against Eisenhower in 1952. His intellectual speeches earned him and his supporters the term "eggheads". Lost to Eisenhower.

United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Also a President.

Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes

an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy

airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism.

a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

created to search out communist influence in the US

required all communist organizations to register with the government and to provide lists of members

southern Democrats who opposed Truman's position on civil rights. They caused a split in the Democratic party.

The line dividing Korea into two sections, north of the the parellel the communist Soviet Union was in charge and south of the parellel was democratic America was in charge. This line would become the demilitarized zone after the Korean conflict.

United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918)

Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States

Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)

became a synonym for public charges of disloyalty without sufficient regard for evidence.

to protest at lunch counters that served only whites, African Americans students began staging this

After the USSR launched Sputnik into space in 1957, the race to put as many things in space as possible was on, and it was called this.

Speech by Nixon that defended himself about using campaign money for personal reasons

court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place

policy of the US that it would defend the middle east against attack by any communist country

the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960

a Russian artificial satellite

limits the number of terms a president may be elected to serve

Where the French were defeated in 1954, giving Vietnam its independence