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, a scholarly Foreign Service officer, provided the key ideas behind America's Cold War containment policy.
Winston Churchill coined the phrase "" to identify the line of division between the Western powers and communist-dominated countries of Eastern Europe.
In June 1948, the Soviet Union demonstrated its dislike of U.S. policies in Western Europe by closing off ground access to .
During the Korean War, differences over basic policy caused President Truman to relieve General of his command of American troops.
President Eisenhower called his program of being flexible without compromising his basic values "" or "progressive moderation."
, President Eisenhower's secretary of state, advocated the policies of "massive retaliation" and "brinkmanship."
At the Geneva Conference in 1954, major powers signed an agreement to divide at the seventeenth parallel, and called for reunification elections to be held in 1956.
The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine declared that U.S. policy in the was to use armed force to stop communist aggression there.
In 1948, the United States joined the , ostensibly committing itself to real cooperation with Latin American nations.
The 1940 Act made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government by force.
The 1957 Act established a Civil Rights Commission and a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.
In 1948, former vice president Henry Wallace ran against President Truman as the candidate of the party.
In 1954, Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnamese Army defeated besieged French forces at the decisive Battle of .
In 1947, President Truman established the Board to check up on government employees, who could be fired if they were found to be members in vaguely defined "subversive" organizations.