Cold War

0peration in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Haitian Revolution

• Marshall Plan

This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years.

• Containment policy

• Truman Doctrine

• Cold War

• Civil Rights Era

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Containment policy

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Communist Rule

an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda,

• HUAC

• Hollywood Ten

• McCarthy

• Venona Papers

political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• HUAC

• Marshall Doctrine

• Truman Plan

• iron curtain

American doctor who invented the polio vaccine in 1953. Polio crippled and killed millions worldwide, and the successful vaccine virtually eliminated the scourage.

• George Marshall

• Harry Truman

• Jonas Salk

• Orval Faubus

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• American Revoution

• Haitian Revolution

Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

• Kim SiLiung

• Sigmon Rhee

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• sputnik

The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

• Red Scare

• HUAC

• McCarthyism

• Communism