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| Coined by William Churchill, this term referred to the barrier of satellite nations set up by the USSR at the end of WWII. |
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| Modified the postwar disarmament plan to effectively keep the US atomic monopoly for the indefinite future, by exempting the agency from UN veto. |
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| General George C. Marshall |
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| Former wartime army chief of staff who became Truman's Secretary of State. His calm policies thought in broad strategic terms. |
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| The policy of countering Soviet aggression and preventing their expansion first stated by George Kennan. |
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| First served under Secretary of State George Marshall, then became Secretary himself. He was an avid anglophile who advocated always negotiating from a position of strength. He also supported the development of the hydrogen bomb. |
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| Served under Secretaries of State Marshall and Acheson. An expert on Russia and the Soviets who greatly distrusted the Kremlin. However, he opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb. |
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| A sort of extension to the Monroe Doctrine, it declared that the US was bound to aid free peoples trying to resist oppression. |
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| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
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| Alliance that officially extended America's atomic shield over Europe in case of Russian attack. |
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| Ran against Harry Truman in the 1948 election. |
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| United all branches of the military under the Department of Defense and created the CIA and the National Security Council. |
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| National Security Council |
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| Council comprised of the service secretaries, the secretary of defense, and the secretary of state, which advises the president on matters of national security. |
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| New statement of national defense policy that presumed the Soviet Union meant to control the rest of the world and was therefore a great threat to the United States |
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