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House of UnAmerican Activities Committee
created to investigate alleged disloyalty (spys) -
GI BILL
A law that provided benefits for soldiers -
Truman Doctrine
An American Foreign policy to counter the Soviet Union. A gain for U.S. -
Marshall Plan
American Aiding to fix western Europe after World War II. Were paying them not to be communist -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union wouldn't let the U.S. bring in supplies on ground so they flew the supplies in. -
NATO
A Military Alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Korean War
Korea invaded South Korea, United Nations act as a mediator. -
Brinkmanship
Pushing to the verge of war and hoping that back down. -
Warsaw Pact
its a name of a treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Interstate Highway System
network of controlled access highways. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Aid to any country that needed help with resisting communism. -
Sputnik
The first Satellite, part of the Space Race. -
U-2 incident
The United States flew a plan over the Soviet Union to Spy, Soviet Union shot down the plane. This angered the Soviet Union -
Bays of Bigs
Was a failed invasion of Cuba, this was a bad because FDR basically took all the blame for the CIA. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States wanted the Soviet Union to take out missiles form Cuba and they refused.
