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- 6. This document set up the Truman Doctrine.
- 7. This congressional agency investigated communist influence inside the United States.
- 12. He lost the 1948 Presidential Election to Harry Truman.
- 13. This legislation established the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 14. President Harry Truman’s economic program that included measures to increase the minimum wage and to extend social security coverage.
- 15. It was the first successful atomic bomb for the Soviet Union.
- 17. He conducted foreign affairs for China’s communist government.
- 18. This legislation provided veterans with various benefits, such as a year’s worth of unemployment, reduced interest rates, and a tuition waiver for college education.
- 19. George Kennan coined this term in the “long telegram.” Kennan argued that the United States needed to stop the Soviet Union from expanding.
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- 1. He was a Chinese nationalist leader who lost the Chinese Civil War.
- 2. He was the leader of North Korea during the early years of the Cold War. He started the Korean War by invading South Korea.
- 3. He was an actor that helped spark the fear of communism in the film industry. He concluded that some scripts he read were pro-communist.
- 4. He made the famous “Iron Curtain Speech,” in Fulton, Missouri.
- 5. It was a failed covert operation that tried to overthrow the Soviet Union by causing rebellion in Eastern Europe.
- 8. He was the communist leader of China who won the Chinese Civil War.
- 9. He worked for the Roosevelt administration during the New Deal. Afterwards, he was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union.
- 10. It provided $13 billion worth of economic aid to Western Europe.
- 11. He was a famous African American baseball player who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1940s.
- 13. Per NSC-68, this strategy concluded that the United States would be a world-wide policeman to stop the spread of communism.
- 16. He used assembly lines methods to mass produce houses during the postwar years.
