Postwar / Cold War Vocab

a meeting between the leaders of the Allied powers that resulted in a plan for peace after World War II

• United Nations
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• Yalta Conference
• Nuremburg Trials

a period of hostility between Western powers and Communist powers

• Marshall Plan
• Cold War
• Truman Doctrine
• Containment

a foreign policy that attempts to stop the spread of communism without ending it in the countries in which it already exists

• Cold War
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• Containment

a policy attempting to contain the spread of communism, beginning with military aid to the monarchies of Turkey and Greece

• Cold War
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• Containment

the idea that the U.S. could help rebuild wartorn Europe with loans and other economic aid

• Cold War
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• Containment

an alliance of Western powers

• United Nations
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• Yalta Conference
• Nuremburg Trials

Senator who lent his name to the term McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles. 

• Mao Zedong
• Joseph McCarthy
• Truman Doctrine
• United Nations

the Cold War foreign policy designed to “get to the verge without getting into the war”

• Baby Boom
• Brinkmanship
• Arms Race
• Urban Renewal

a sharp increase in the number of American births during the 1950s and 1960s

• Baby Boom
• Brinkmanship
• Arms Race
• Urban Renewal

Satellite Nations

• A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

• A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

• Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's

• American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world