The Korean War and McCarthyism

An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment.

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.

President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology.

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries, including the United States and Canada, that support each other if attacked.

All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.

A political system in which the production and distribution of goods are controlled by an authoritarian government.

Leader of the Communist Party in China who established the country as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

Line of latitude that separated North and South Korea.

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea (1950-53).

Wisconsin senator who claimed to have list of communists in American government but no credible evidence. "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists during the 1950s.

The principle of not backing down in a crisis, even if it meant taking the country close to war.

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons.

The hydrogen bomb - a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the Atomic bomb.