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| Democrat, 33rd U.S President following FDR after his death 3 months into his 4th term. |
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| Author that inspired Truman Doctrine and became prominent figure during Cold War |
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| Progressive Vice President during Truman's term. Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce |
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| Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense during the Cold War |
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| First Black baseball player to compete in Major League Baseball. Caused a lot of controversy, but key moment in Civil Rights Movement |
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| Joseph R. McCarthy/McCarthyism |
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| practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence, created by Joseph R McCarthy. |
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| American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage |
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| republican, 36th U.S. president. Rose in military ranks during WW2 before becoming President. Only president to resign. |
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| Speech given by Winston Churchill. concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War 2 until the end of the Cold War. alliances differed on each side of Iron Curtain. |
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| United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a domino effect |
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| policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere |
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| large-scale economic program, 1947–1951, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe |
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| western Allies aircraft sent to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin after the first casualties of the cold war were taken from the Western Allies |
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| National Security Act of 1947 |
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| realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War 2 |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty where the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party |
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| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| civilian intelligence agency of the United States government, reporting to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers and also engages in covert activities at the request of the President |
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| Term during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned or not moving at all with either capitalism and NATO or communism and the Soviet Union |
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| 21 point program of domestic legislation outlining a series of proposed actions in the fields of economic development and social welfare |
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| President’s Committee on Civil Rights/To Secure These Rights |
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| committee instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the United States and propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of American citizens |
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| United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions |
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| an oath of loyalty to Truman and the U.S., or state of which an individual is a member |
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| House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
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| investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives |
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| Top secret report defining American foreign policy during the Cold War that set a foreign policy precedent for the next 20 years |
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