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House of UnAmerican Activities Committee
Investigated alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communis -
GI Bill
Provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II -
National Security Act
Restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
Convinced Stalin had no interest in helping restore economic health in Western Europe -
Berlin Airlift
U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany -
NATO
Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Korean War
The Korean War started when North Korea invaded South Korea -
Brinkmanship
The tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one's opposition to retreat -
Bay of Pigs
Was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union -
Interstate Highway System
The network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I -
U-2 Incident
Created tension and the Soviet Union did not like this -
Warsaw Pact
This caused the push of Cuba and the Soviet Union and the US military to aid to Cuban exiles -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Nuclear test Ban Treaty
There was no testing above ground, they tested underwater -
Berlin Wall
Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
