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United Nations (UN) |
an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development |
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satellite nation |
a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation |
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containment |
the blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence—especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s |
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iron curtain |
a phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe |
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Cold War |
the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II |
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Truman Docterine |
a U.S. policy, announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external Opponents. |
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Marshall Plan |
the program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II |
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Berlin airlift |
a 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948 |
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North Atlantic Treaty Orgnaization (NATO) |
a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada |
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Chiang Kai-shek |
a nationalist who ruled in southern and eastern China who had a weak government |
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Mao Zedong |
communist leader in northern China who was winning over the people
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Taiwan |
Taiwan is a small island nation 180km east of China, Chiang and whats left of his government fled here |
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38th parallel |
38th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea |
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Korean War |
a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953, in which the United States, along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans |
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HUAC |
a congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II |
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Hollywood ten |
ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC’s investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood |
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blacklist |
a list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections |
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Alger Hiss |
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950 |
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Ethel and Julius Rosenburg |
American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, and passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets |
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Joseph McCarthy |
was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957 |
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McCarthyism |
the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s |
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H-bomb |
the hydrogen bomb—a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Dwight D.Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War |
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John Foster Dulles |
served as U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against Communism throughout the world |
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brinkmanship |
the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression |
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
a U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments |
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Warsaw Pact |
a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites |
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Eisenhower Docterine |
a U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War |
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Francis Gary Powers |
an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident |
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U-2 incident |
the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960 |
