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21 Cards in this Set
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Satellite nations |
Country subjected to Soviet domination on western boards that would serve as buffers |
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Iron curtain |
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between communist and non-Communist life |
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Cold War |
The competition that developed after World War II between the US and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world |
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Containment |
Calls for the US to resist soviet attempts to form communist government elsewhere in the world |
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Truman doctrine |
Established by president Truman to guide American actions in Cold War |
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Marshall plan |
Call for the nations of Europe to draw up a program for economic recovery which the US would support with aid |
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Berlin airlift |
Operation that moved supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during the Soviet blockade in 1948 through 1949 |
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McCarthyism |
Describes Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist smear tactics |
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Arms race |
Weapons superiority |
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Deterrence |
No enemy would attack |
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Brinkmanship |
Term used by secretary of state John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interest |
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Sputnik |
The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth launch by the Soviet union |
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U-2 incident |
American spy plane |
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HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
Established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty on the ease of World War II and after the war it investigated possible communist in our government |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance between the Soviet Union and nations of western Europe |
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Blacklist |
List of people who should it be hired because they were supposedly communist |
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McCarran-Walter Act |
Reaffirmed the quota System that had been established for each country in 1924 |
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38th parallel |
Latitude line that divided North and South Korea |
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Military industrial complex |
The military established as it develops links to the corporate and scientific communities employing 3.5 million Americans by 1960 |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty organization |
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ICBM |
Intercontinental ballistic missile |
