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Vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt who became president upon Roosevelt’s death in April 1945 and successfully carried out the remainder of World War II.
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Kennedy’s collective bundle of domestic policies, which called for increased social welfare spending to tackle the growing poverty rate.
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A U.S. foreign policy doctrine that argued that the Soviet Union needed to be “contained” to prevent the spread of Communism throughout the world.
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An act passed in 1947 that reorganized the U.S. military and espionage services in order to better meet the Soviet threat.
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The belief that if the United States allowed one country to fall to Communism, then many more would follow suit, like a row of dominoes.
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Republican congressman from California who rose to national fame as a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s when he successfully prosecuted Alger Hiss for being a Communist.
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The thirty-fifth U.S. president, who set out to expand social welfare spending with his New Frontier program. Kennedy was elected in 1960, defeating Republican Richard M. Nixon.
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An organization formed in 1949 that bound the United States, Canada, most of Western Europe, and later Greece and Turkey together in a mutual pact of defense against the USSR and Eastern bloc countries.
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The nationalist, Communist leader of the Viet Minh movement, which sought to liberate Vietnam from French colonial rule throughout the 1950s.
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The Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for primacy in the exploration of outer space.
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