Truman Doctrine - President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, Iron Curtain Speech - Given by the former Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, in Missouri, in which he talks about the dangers of communism engulfing Europe., McCarthyism - The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism, Communism - A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state., West Germany and East Germany - Created after the Berlin Airlift. This division lasted for the remainder of the Cold War until the Berlin Wall was broken down., Berlin Airlift - airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin, Capitalism - An economic system based on private property and free enterprise., Warsaw Pact - An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion, Marshall Plan - A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) - A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II., Rosenberg Trial - the controversial 1951 trial of two Americans charged with passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union; the two were sentenced to death and executed in 1953, making them the only American civilians to be put to death for spying during the Cold War,

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