United States History Chapter 23: The Postwar Era

Nuremberg Trials

in which twenty-four war criminals were charged after

Marshall Plan

A European financial recovery program

Truman Doctrine

Harry Truman’s policy of aiding countries in fighting communist takeovers

Berlin airlift

a massive airlift of food and supplies to west berlin headed by Truman

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese nationalist leader

Mao Zedong

Chinese Communist leader

limited war

a war with a limited objective short of total victory over the enemy

Ho Chi Minh

Communist leader in french indochina

Ngo Dinh Diem

anti-communist leader in southern indochina

Fidel Castro

dictator of cuba who overthrew the old one and made the nation worse than before

Bay of Pigs

spot where anti-Castro cubans and CIA agents were captured

Nikita Khruschev

soviet leader involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis

peaceful coexistence

the idea of communist and democratic nations existing side by side without constant conflict

Fair Deal

Truman’s legislative goals summarized by himself

National Security Act

act that created the post of secretary of defense, removed secretary of war

Henry A. Wallace

secretary of commerce fired for criticizing Truman’s policies

Strom Thurmond

Governor of South Carolina who ran for president in 1948

Thomas Dewey

Republican candidate for presidency in 1948, NY gov

Adlai Stevenson

Democrat candidate in 1952 who ran against Eisenhower