drills performed by American school children in preparation for a Soviet attack

wrote the novel Tomorrow! to educate the public about the horrors of atomic war

seized by the Egyptians, who intended to use its profits to fund other projects

deadly radiation left over after a nuclear blast

military alliance formed in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union

FBI director who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on Communist subversion

type of American spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960

general in charge of occupied Japan, fired by President Truman for insubordination

Communist countries of Eastern Europe that were dependent on the Soviet Union

separated North Korea and South Korea after the armistice that ended the Korean War

The United Nations was officially organized in 1945 and had a Security Council responsible for international peace and security. The Security Council could ask its members to

At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry Truman took a firm stand against heavy reparations and insisted that

In 1946 what did Winston Churchill describe as an “iron curtain” falling across Eastern Europe?

In the document known as the Long Telegram, U.S. diplomat George Kennan expressed his opinion that the Soviet Union had major economic and political weaknesses and proposed a policy of

In response to Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey, President Truman outlined a policy known as the ______________, which pledged the United States to fight the spread of communism worldwide.

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

The post-World War II Red Scare began in 1945, when a clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, defected and

Senator Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his anti-Communist witch hunt by

The informal relationship between the military and the defense industry that some people believe influences government policy, particularly military spending, is known as

To prevent developing nations from allying themselves with the Soviet Union or falling to Communist uprisings, President Eisenhower decided to use