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| The President of the United States after Franklin D. Roosevelt was killed. He was the president during the Cold War. |
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| A career diplomat, who wrote a comprehensive rationale for hard-line foreign policy. His views about Communism were published in a magazine called Foreign Affairs |
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| The Vice President at the time of the Cold War. |
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| The first to integrate major league baseball by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He won the Rookie of the Year award. |
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| The secretary of state that proposed the Marshall plan. |
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| Joseph R. McCarthy/McCarthyism |
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| The senator of Wisconsin who set out on and anti-communist conspiracy accusing many famous people of being communist. |
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| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
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| American communists who were executed in 1953. |
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| The Vice President to Eisenhower |
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| Speech given by Winston Churchill referring to all countries behind the Soviet Union as an iron curtain and how communism was such a sinister thing. |
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| A United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect". |
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| Stating the US would resist to the Soviet Army and also support outside countries. |
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| Invited all European nations as well as the Soviet Union to receive aid from the US in return for cooperation with capitalism. |
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| The US responded to the Berlin blockade by flying in planes carrying all the food, fuel and other necessities. |
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| National Security Act of 1947 |
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| Streamlines defense planning by uniting the military branches under a single secretary of defense and creating National Security Council. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| An alliance with United States, Canada, and Western European nations pledging to go to war if any of the allies were attacked. |
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| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| Made to gather information and to perform any "functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security" |
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| Countries that had not developed an industrial economy. |
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| Suggested by Truman that every American have health insurance and get paid at least the minimum wage to secure all guaranteed rights. |
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| President’s Committee on Civil Rights/To Secure These Rights |
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| The committee was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the United States and propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of American citizens. After the committee submitted a report of its findings to President Truman, it disbanded December 1947 |
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| a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions |
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