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| American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army |
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| motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power |
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| continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World and western world |
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| a revision of the Neutrality Acts, designed to aid the British |
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| period marked by a greatly increased birth rate after ww2 |
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| United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
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| landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II |
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| speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East" |
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| diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power |
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| The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea |
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| United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945 |
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| suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons |
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| American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. |
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| radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology |
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| Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II |
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goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941
- Freedom of speech and expression
- Freedom of worship
- Freedom from want
- Freedom from fear
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| accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. |
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| law that provided college (or high school or vocational education) for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation |
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| genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II |
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| foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II |
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| investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives |
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| crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands |
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| ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989 |
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| one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties |
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| American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. |
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| internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II |
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| barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin |
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| renounced war prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" |
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| led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War |
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| cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II |
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| policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman in a speechon March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. |
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| research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. |
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| United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism |
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| intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. |
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| political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945 |
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| a series of acts intended to prevent the U.S. from being drawn into a war |
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| headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.[ |
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| often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons |
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| American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war |
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| first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit |
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| a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. |
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| international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. |
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| wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. |
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| conference between Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States |
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