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31 Cards in this Set
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United Nations |
International organization to keep peace between countries |
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Satellite Nation |
Described certain nations in cold war, aligned with Soviet union |
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Containment |
Refusal of spread of communism |
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Iron Curtain |
Division of east and west europe |
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Cold war |
War between east and west europe |
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Truman Doctrine |
America would provide aid to any country fighting communism |
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Marshall Plan |
Rebuild countries destroyed in war |
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Berlin Airlift |
Moved goods into western europe |
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NATO |
Organization backing up countries involved in cold war |
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Chiang Kai shek |
First democratic leader of North Korea |
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Mao zedong |
Over threw Chiang Kai shek, made north Korea communist |
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Taiwan |
Nationalists from S. Korea went there |
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38th parallel |
Led by Macarthur, fighting divider line |
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Korean War |
Led by MacArthur, fighting for land with north and south Korea |
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HUAC |
House of unamerican committee looked for communists |
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Hollywood Ten |
10 prominent screen writers and directors sent to jail for not answering questions about communist allegations |
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Blacklist |
List of people viewed with suspicion |
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Alger Hiss |
Gov. Official accused of veunf Soviet spy |
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Ethel and Julius Rosenburg |
Sov. Spys that pretended to be scientists |
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Joseph McCarthy |
Created McCarthyism |
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McCarthyism |
Anti communist beliefs |
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H bomb |
Hydrogen bomb approved by Truman |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th president. War general |
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John foster Dulles |
Created Brinkmanship |
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Brinkmanship |
Getting close to fighting a war, but not |
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Central Intelligence Agency |
Foreign intelligence service of U.S gov |
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Warsaw Pact |
All of satellite nations under USSR |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
Speech by Eisenhower, middle eastern country's could request American ecomonic assistance |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
Succeeded Stalin |
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Francis Gary Powers |
American Pilot in u2 incident |
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U2 incident |
When US spy plane was shot down over Soviet Territory |
