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15 Cards in this Set
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hollywood ten
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decided not to cooperate because they beleived that the hearings were uncistitutional
-refused to answer questions os sent to prison |
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blacklist
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a lsit of poeple whom they condemned for having a communist background
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alger hiss
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accused of spying for the soviet union
--chambers, a former communist, was the one who accused him and he produced a microilm og governemtn docusments that he claimed had been typed on hiss's ttypewriter |
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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minor activists in the Aemreican Communists Party
--asked if tehy were communists-denied charges -found guilty of espionage |
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mcCartyhisms
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attacks on suspected communistst in the early 1950s were known as this
-took advantage of peopels concerms about communisms and were made by joseph mccarthy |
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Joseph mcCarthy
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-a republican from wisconsin
-realized he as goign to neeed a winning issure in order to be relected |
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H bomb
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more desturctive than the atomic bomb
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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preseident by the time both countries had the H-bomb
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John Foster DUlles
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anit communists
-secretray of stae -the cold wat was a moral crusade against communisms -proposed that the US could prevent the spread of communism by using force |
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brinkmanship
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went to the adge of an all out war
-US trummed its army and navy and expanded its air force |
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CIA
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as nation shifted to a dependence of nuclear arms the Eisenhower administration relied on these spies to gater info aborad
-weakned those thaat twere a threat to US |
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Warsaw Pact
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linked the Soivet Union wiht seven European countries
-militray alliance formed by soviet unnion when west germany allowed to ream and join NATo |
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Eisenhower Doctine
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said that he US would defned the MIddle EAst against an attack by any communist country
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Nikita Khrushchev
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bleieved communism would take over the world but thought it would triumph peacefully
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Francis Gary Powers
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A U-2 pilot,
-the existence and purpose of the U-2 was an open secret among members of the american press -the soviets had been aware ofthe flights since 1958 |
