All terms in this list:

Holocaust: Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted peoples in concentration camps

Marshall Plan: U.S plan developed by George C. Marshall to help boost the economies of European nations after the war

Nuremberg Trials: War crime trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany

United Nations: International peace keeping body founded by 50 nations in April 1945

Communism: Single-party political system in which the government controls and plans the economy with the goal of common ownership of all property

G.I Bill of rights: Government bill that paid for veterans' education and living expenses

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a military alliance that included Canada, the U.S and ten European nations

Warsaw Pact: The Soviet Union and Eastern European nations created the Warsaw Pact in response to NATO