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The organization of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations.
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Strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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One of the most controversial matters at the Potsdam Conference was the revision of the German-Soviet-Polish borders and the expulsion of several million Germans from the disputed territories.
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An organization to promote peace to nations.
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President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
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A foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II.
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Program in which the United States and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
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Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion.
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Named after Senator Joseph McCarthy. He made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government. This was not true.
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North Korean forces attacked across the 38th parallel. They overtook the South Korean capital city and set out after the retresting South Korean army.
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Ethel Rosenberg was found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets.
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The two sides ceased their firing because Eisenhower hinted that he might bring nuclear weapons into the war.
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Launched by the Soviet Union. The Sputnik 1 is a 184 pound steel ball containing a small transmitter.
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The military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and is from the Soviet Union. He completed one orbit around Earth.
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Alan Shepard was the first American to go to space. He rode in a Mercury-Redstone rocket. The flight was fifteen minutes.
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The Berlin Wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to go on the moon. The Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
