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26 Cards in this Set
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Satellite state |
Independentnation under the control of a more powerful nation.
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Cold war |
worldwiderivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Iron Curtain |
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe |
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Containment |
Policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders |
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Marshall plan |
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War 2 |
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Berlin Airlift |
Program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade |
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NATO |
Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance of the soviet Union and its satellite states |
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38th Parallel |
Dividing line between North and South Korea |
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Limited war |
War fought to achieve only specific goals |
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SEATO |
Defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia |
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Arms Race |
Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
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Mutually assured destruction |
policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another |
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Massive retaliation |
policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression. |
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Brinkmanship |
Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against communist aggression |
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Nationalize |
to place a resource under government control |
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Suez Crisis |
attempt by France and Great Britain to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956 |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism |
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CIA |
U.S. intelligence gathering organization |
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NASA |
Government agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space |
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Red Scare |
Fear that the communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
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Smith Act |
Law that made it lawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government |
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HUAC |
Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States |
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Hollywood ten |
group of movie writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties |
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Blacklist |
list of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties |
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McCarthyism |
negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty
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