Early Cold War

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  1. 2. was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe
  2. 3. The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold
  3. 5. President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
  4. 8. was the colloquial term for what was in actuality a broader entertainment industry
  5. 10. he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941.
  6. 11. the boundary that separated the
  7. 12. is an independent agency and volunteer program run by the United States Government providing international social and economic development assistance.
  8. 13. was a war between North Korea and South Korea.
  9. 16. aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
  10. 19. 33rd president of the United States, who led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War, vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe
  11. 21. from 1949 to 1990, a republic consisting of the western two-thirds of what is now Germany.
  12. 22. was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state.
  13. 24. put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States
  14. 25. the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
  15. 27. is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason, especially when related to communism.
  16. 28. A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes.
  17. 32. it had to fend off enemies both directly on its borders and over the distant horizon.
  18. 34. The amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.
  19. 35. was a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty signed on May 14, 1955
  20. 37. a state that cannot be ignored on the world stage and without whose cooperation no world problem can be solved
  21. 38. was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States
  22. 39. was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as the first secretary of the ruling Communist Party from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
  23. 40. was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
  24. 41. was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China.
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  1. 1. was an international conference at which proposals for the establishment of a "general international organization", which was to become the United Nations, were formulated and negotiated.
  2. 4. was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
  3. 6. was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army.
  4. 7. used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea.
  5. 9. the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology
  6. 14. Kennedy, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
  7. 15. was built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961.
  8. 17. was a village just north of the de facto border between North and South Korea
  9. 18. are those Eastern European nations that were allied with and under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  10. 20. fair deal recommended that all Americans have health insurance, that the minimum wage
  11. 21. countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
  12. 23. was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008.
  13. 26. was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
  14. 29. crisis, A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
  15. 30. was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953.
  16. 31. also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
  17. 33. was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F. Kennedy.
  18. 36. occurs when two or more countries increase the size and quality of military resources to gain military and political superiority over one another.