Postwar/Cold War Unit Terms

    1. Yalta Conference

    2. Harry Truman

    3. GI Bill

    4. Baby Boom

    5. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    6. Interstate Highway Act

    7. Suburbanization

    8. Consumerism

    9. Sunbelt

    10. Affluence

    11. Conformity

       

    12. Rock-and-roll

    13. Communism

    14. Capitalism

    15. Iron Curtain

    16. Cold War

    17. Containment

    18. Collective Security

    19. United Nations

    20. Marshall Plan

    21. “New Look”

    22. Massive Retaliation

    23. Hydrogen Bomb

    24. “Duck and Cover”

    25. NASA

    26. McCarthyism

    27. John F. Kennedy

    28. Flexible Response

    29. Bay of Pigs Invasion

    30. Cuban Missile Crisis

    31. Vietnam

    32. Gulf of Tonkin & Resolution

    33. Lyndon B. Johnson

       

    34. Escalation

    35. Search and Destroy

    36. Vietcong

    37. Vietnamization

    38. Richard Nixon

    39. Détente

    40. Iran Hostage Crisis

    41. Ronald Reagan

    42. “Roll Back”

    43. Mikhail Gorbachev

    44. Glasnost & Perestroika