Untitled Flashcards Set

Cold War

Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin

United Nations

Security Council

World Bank

Satellites

Winston Churchill

Containment policy

George Marshall

Dean Acheson

George F. Kennan

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

West Germany

East Germany

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Warsaw Pact

National Security Council

Arms race

NSC-68

Douglas MacArthur

U.S.-Japanese security treaties

Chiang Kai-shek

Mao Zedong

Taiwan

People’s Republic of China
38th parallel

Kim Il Sung

Syngman Rhee

Korean War

John Foster Dulles

Brinkmanship

Massive retaliation

Korean armistice

Atoms for peace

Open-skies policy

Spirit of Geneva

Nikita Khrushchev

Peaceful coexistence

Hungarian revolt

Sputnik

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

U-2 Incident

Cuba

Fidel Castro

military-industrial complex

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Wall

Cuban missile crisis

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Flexible-response policy

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Henry Kissinger

Detente

Anti Ballistic missiles (ABMs)

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

Loyalty Review Board

Dennis et al. v. United States

Smith Act (1940)

McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Whittaker Chambers

Alger Hiss

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Joseph McCarthy

McCarthyism

Harry S. Truman

Employment Act of 1946

Council of Economic Advisors

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights or GI Bill)

Baby boom

Levittown

Sun Belt

22nd Amendment

Taft-Hartley Act

Fair Deal

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)

Soil-bank program

Modern Republicanism

Highway Act

Interstate highways

New Frontier

Trade Expansion Act

New Federalism

Revenue sharing

stagflation

Television

Credit cards

Fast food

Paperback novels

Rock and roll

Conglomerates

The Lonely Crowd

The Affluent Society

The Catcher in the Rye

Catch-22

Beatniks

Warren Commission