Cold War

War crime trials after World War II to punish the Japanese in the Germans

Nuremberg/Tokyo trials

International organization committed to world peace led by its security council

UN (United Nations)

Non-shooting war of tension between the US and the USSR from 1945 to 1990

Cold War

Outlaws are closed shop and said union leaders had to swear they were not communist

Taft/Hartley act

Southern Democrats, who broke with their party over civil rights

Dixiecrats

Refers to the high birth rate from 1946 to 1964

Baby boom

Truman‘s economic plan that included “ Full employment” And national healthcare

Fair deal

America’s Spies

CIA (Central intelligence agency)

Wisconsin senator who accused people of being communist with no evidence

• McCarthyism

Joe McCarthy

Member of the communist party, worked for the state department. Went to jail for perjury

Alger Hiss

American couple, convicted and executed, for being communist spies

The Rosenbergs

Federal group that investigated communism in American society, especially in Hollywood. Led by Richard Nixon.

HUAC (House committee on Unamerican activities)

what does the G.I. Bill of Rights give World War II veterans?

• Mortgages

• Tuition for

• Business loan

• Job training

US foreign policy to stop the spread of communism

Containment

When the US gave Europe money so they can rebuild after World War II

Marshall plan

Policy of going to the verge of World War III to stop communism

Brinkmanship

US foreign policy that said if one country falls to communism, all of his neighbors would fall

• China fell under this theory, and because of this theory, we got involved with the Vietnam war

Domino theory

countries completely dominated by another Nation

Satellite nations

Mutual defense group made up of the US and western Europe

• And attack to one, is an attack to all

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty organization)

Mutual defense group made up of the Soviet union and eastern Europe

Warsaw Pact

When Truman gave $400 million to Turkey in Greece to fight communism

Truman doctrine

Gives money to any Middle Eastern country, fighting communism

Eisenhower doctrine

When Stalin block hated West Berlin, Truman used an airlift to resupply the city, and Stalin back down

Berlin AirLift

Jewish homeland created in the Middle East after World War II

Israel

Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died

Nikita Khrushchev