The Cold War Study

vice president to FDR who assumed the presidency after FDR died mysteriously

• Joseph McCarthy

• Harry S. Truman

• Ho Chi Minh

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Republican Senator from Wisconsin that stirred up Americans during a speech in West Virginia by holding up what he claimed to be a list of 205 known Communists working within the state department.

• Joseph McCarthy

• Harry S. Truman

• Ho Chi Minh

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party

• Joseph McCarthy

• Harry S. Truman

• Ho Chin Minh

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

WWII General who succeeded President Truman in 1953

• Joseph McCarthy

• Harry S. Truman

• Ho Chin Minh

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

formed out of WWII, the charter stated that members would try and resolve their difference peacefully

• The Marshall Plan

• HUAC (House Un-amrican Activities Comitee

• NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• United Nations

Truman & Stalin’s first meeting after Truman took office. They met to continue talks about post war Europe

• The Truman Doctrine

• Potsdam Conference

• Iron Curtain

• The McCarthy Mess

countries subject to Soviet Domination

• collective security

• Korea

• containment

• satellite nations

invisible wall that Churchill referred to splitting East & West Europe.

• Iron Curtain

• The Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

• The Truman Doctrine

competition that developed between the US and Soviet union for power and influence in the world.

• the split in germany

• The Cold War

• The Mccarthy mess

• The Korea War

theory to keep the Soviets from attempting to form Communist governments elsewhere in the world.