Cold War Key People, Terms and Events
While the Cold War spans from just after World War II to the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, these terms focus
more on the period of the mid 1940s up to US involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. There may be some overlap. Use
Chapter 28-32 to identify these key people, places, and events. If a person is associated with an event, you will be able
to two questions at once. DUE: 4/12/13
People
Allen Dulles
John Foster Dulles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alger Hiss
Ho Chi Minh
John F. Kennedy
George Kennan
Nikita Khrushchev
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph McCarthy
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Richard M. Nixon
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Kim Il Sung
Harry S. Truman
Terms and Events
Atomic bomb
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Baby boom generation
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Beat generation
Berlin Airlift
Bomb shelters
Censorship
Communism
Containment
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dien Bien Phu
Domino Theory
Duck and Cover programs in schools
Federal Highway Act
Flexible Response
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Iron Curtain
John Birch Society
Hysteria
Guatemala
Korean War
Marshall Plan
Massive Retaliation
McCarthyism
Missile Gap
Montgomery G.I. Bill
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
National Security Act
National Security Council Memorandum 68 (NSC-68)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
New Frontier
New Look
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Red Hunts
Space Race
Sputnik I
Sputnik II
Suburbia
Suez Crisis
Taft-Hartley Act
Truman Doctrine
U-2 Incident
United Fruit Company
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
White flight
Yalta Conference