People

Harry S Truman
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
George Marshall
Joe McCarthy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Jonas Salk
Thomas Francis
Thomas Dewey
Strom Thurmond
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fulgenicio Batista
Fidel Castro
Nikita Krushchev

Events

Potsdam Conference
Berlin Airlift
The Communist Revolution
 in China
The Red Hunt
Alger Hiss Trial
The Korean War
The U-2 Incident
The Baby Boom
The election of 1948
Assassination of Kennedy
Bay of Pigs invasion
Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis

Things and Concepts

The United Nations
Iron Curtain
Satellite nations
Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Marshall Plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact
House Un-American Activities
Committee
The blacklist
Korea
ICBMs
Sputnik
The arms race
Deterrence
Military-industrial complex
The GI Bill
The Polio vaccine
Rock-and-roll music
Beatniks
Reconversion
Truman’s railroad strike plan
The Fair Deal
Taft-Hartley Act
Dixiecrats
Modern Republicanism
NASA
National Defense Education Act
The New Frontier
The Great Society
The Berlin Wall
The Peace Corps
Vietnam

Possible Essay Questions

Describe the arms race.
Describe the space race.
Why was the National Defense
Education Act created?
How did the Cold War affect
society?
Describe Kennedy and Johnson’s
social programs.
Why was the communist
revolution in Cuba such a problem?
Describe the Cuban Missile
Crisis.

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