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Cold War: The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, 1945–91.

Manhattan Project: The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.

Hiroshima: a city in Honshu, Japan; devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare in 1945

Nagasaki: A large city in Western Kyushu, in Japan.

capitalism: a socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of an unregulated market.

communism: Any political philosophy or ideology advocating holding the production of resources collectively.

Harry Truman: Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States.

United Nations: An international coalition, founded 24 October 1945, headquartered in New York City

Joseph Stalin: Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

Arms race: A competition for military supremacy between two powers, especially for the most weapons and the best military technology.

Truman Doctrine: On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.

containment: a policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War

Iron Curtain: The dividing line between western Europe and the Soviet controlled regions, especially during the Cold War.

Berlin Blockade: The Berlin blockade (24 June 1948;– 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal a

marshall plan: The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European econ

Mao Zedong: A revolutionary leader, particularly a communist, socialist, or major reformist. Sometimes used figuratively in non-political contexts.

NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4

Warsaw pact: The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO) was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during

2nd red scare: Beginning in 1947 with the HUAC hearings the Second Red Scare marked a period in American history and culture that was defined by a fear of a possible Communist takeover. Propaganda was heavily used against the Soviet Union and its satellites to promote u

Joseph McCarthy: Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

korean war: Korean War definition. A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North K

General Douglas MacArthur: Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II

Sputnik: Any of a series of Soviet unmanned space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.

NASA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

Yuri Gagarin: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

John Glenn: John Herschel Glenn, Jr. is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States senator.

Apollo 11: Apollo 11 definition. The space vehicle that carried three American astronauts to the moon and back in July 1969. The vehicle consisted of a command module, which stayed in lunar orbit, and a lunar module, which carried two of the three crewmen to a safe

Great Debate: In astronomy, the Great Debate, also called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was an influential debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis which concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the universe.

Bay of Pigs: Bay of Pigs definition. The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961.

Nikita Kruschev: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.

Berlin Wall: A wall constructed by the Soviet Union to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin.

Cuban Missile Crisis: Cuban missile crisis definition. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.

Lee Harvey Oswald: Lee Harvey Oswald was, according to five U.S. government investigations, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963

warren commission: One week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President Lyndon Johnson establishes a special commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination.

Vietnam War: The Vietnam War (1955–75) was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion

Indochina: The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

Ho Chi Minh: The biggest city of Viet Nam, formerly known as Saigon. Also called "Ho Chi Minh City".

Tet Offensive: Tet offensive definition. A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet.

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