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16 Cards in this Set
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Arms Race |
The competition between the US and the USSR to build better and more numerous forms of military technology |
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Blacklist |
A list that is circulated among employers containing names of a person that should not be hired |
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Brinkmanship |
Policy of risking war in order to protect a nation's interest |
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Cold War |
The struggle between the forces of communism in democracy for power and world influence from 1945 to 1991 |
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Collective security |
Policies in which countries agree to protect one another during an attack |
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Containment |
The idea that America should take an active role in stopping the spread of communism around the world |
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Domino theory |
The foreign policy idea that if one country fell to communism other nearby countries might fall as well |
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Eisenhower doctrine |
The American pledge to aid Middle Eastern nations that were being threatened by communism |
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House un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
The government organization designed to investigate suspected communism during the Red Scare |
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Iron Curtain |
The line in Europe that separated free democratic nations from totalitarian nations |
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Marshall plan |
Program of American financial assistance offer to Western Europe in 1947 |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
A group of alliances that was based on the idea of protecting democratic nations in Western Europe from the spread of communism |
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Warsaw Pact |
The Soviet version of European alliances |
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Satellite nation |
A country dominated politically and economically by the Soviet Union during the Cold |
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Sputnik |
A Russian satellite that was the first to orbit the Earth |
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Truman Doctrine |
The foreign policy of offering American assistance to any nation that was attempting to resist communism |
