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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 nations |
countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
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containment |
taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries |
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"iron curtain" |
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 |
conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the battlefield |
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Truman Doctrine |
statement that declared "it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." Congress agreed and decided that the doctrine was essential to keeping Soviet influence from spreading |
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Marshall Plan |
the program under which the US supplied economic aid to the European nations to help them rebuild after WWII |
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Berlin Airlift |
a 327-day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
a defensive military alliance who pledged military support to one another in case any member was attacked |
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Chiang Kai-Shek |
nationalist government leader of China |
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Mao Zedong |
Communist leader in China |
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Taiwan |
where Chiang and his demoralized government fled to, known as Formosa to Westerners |
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38th parallel |
boundary dividing Korea |
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Korean War |
the conflict that followed after the North Koreans came across the 38th parallel and attacked |
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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
famous agency that investigated possible communist influence |
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Hollywood Ten |
the ten "unfriendly" witnesses that were called to testify but refused. Eventually they were sent to prison because they wouldn't answer any questions |
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blacklist |
a list of people whom they condemned for having a communist background |
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Alger Hiss |
man accused by Whittaker Chambers of being a spy for the Soviet Union |
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Ethel and Julius Rosenburg |
minor activists in the American Communist Party |
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H-bomb |
hydrogen bomb |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
president at the time both countries had the H-bomb |
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John Foster Dulles |
secretary of state who was anti-communist |
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brinkmanship |
to go to the edge of all-out war |
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
uses spies to find out information abroad, carried out covert operations to weaken or overthrow other governments that were unfriendly to the US |
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Warsaw Pact |
military alliance formed by the Soviet Union when West Germany was able to rearm and they became afraid |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
warning that said the US would defend Middle East against an attack by any communist country |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
man who eventually took leadership in the Soviet Union and believed communism would take over the world but that it could triumph peacefully |
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Francis Gary Powers |
U-2 pilot |
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U-2 incident |
the drowning of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union |
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Joseph McCarthy |
a Republican from Wisconsin who was the most famous anti-communist activist |
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McCarthyism |
the attacks on suspected communists in the early 1950s |
