| Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin who questioned the loyalty of many government officials |
| Nikita Khruschev | Succeeded Stalin and became the Soviet premier |
| Cold War | Conflict between Communists and non-Communists |
| Welfare State | Nation in which the government controls welfare of its citizens |
| Security Council of the United Nations | Five major powers, or the Allied powers prevented the Council from taking action by veto power |
| Nuremberg Trials | A trial met at Nuremberg, Germany, charging 22 of the Nazi leaders |
| Recession | Temporary period of time with less employment |
| Charles de Gaulle | First president of the Fifth Republic of France and he ended the Algeria war |
| George Marshall | Secretary of United States who created the Marshall Plan which helped Europe recover from the war |
| Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka | Case that resulted in black children to attend separate schools |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance formed by European communist countries in which they agreed to supply troops |
| NATO(North American Treaty Organization) | Alliance formed by Western nations to deter any Soviet drive to the West |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Used nonviolent methods during the civil rights movement in the United States |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman set up this doctrine to help defend Greece and Turkey for communist aggression |
| The Prague Spring | Czechoslovakia began a program of reform which was quickly ended by the Soviet Union |
| The European Economic Community(EEC) | 6 European nations signed the Treaty of Rome which eventually ended tariffs |
| Market Economy | Economy in which competition determines the value of goods |
| Command Economy | Economy in which the government makes all the government decisions |
| Cominform | Soviet organization whose purpose was to denounce Marshall Plan aid |
| NAACP(The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) | Organization that helped black Americans find employment and secure civil rights |
| St. Lawrence Seaway | United States and Canada built this seaway which linked to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean |
| East Germany | Country that built the Berlin Wall to prevent refugees |
| Denazification | Allies formed a policy that removed former Nazis |
| The Berlin Blockade | Soviets blockaded the East Germany border land and water traffic into Berlin |
| The Berlin Airlift | United States and Great Britain organized airlifts to transport food into West Berlin |
| Nations that were imported quotas from the EEC | France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg |