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21 Cards in this Set
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Truman doctrine |
US policy to used in Greece and Turkey |
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Satellite nations |
Communist controlled countries of Eastern Europe |
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Iron curtain |
Line dividing Western and Eastern Europe |
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Nato |
International military pledge between 9 Western European nations |
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Berlin airlift |
Supply 2 million tons of supplies to West Berlin from airplane |
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Kai-shek |
Chinese nationalist leader |
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MacArthur |
General that was commander of UN forces in Korea |
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38th parallel |
Line dividing North and South Korea |
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Zedong's |
Chinese communist leader |
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Federal employee royalty program |
Investigated federal employees this disloyal to US government |
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Mccarran act |
Lawful the plan action |
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House on American activities committee |
investigate communst in the movie industry |
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Mccarthyism |
Unsubstained from McCarthy's suspected of being communist |
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Marshall plan |
Post World War 2 us economic aid program |
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CIA |
Gathers info and carries out convert operations to weaken government |
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Containment |
Policy to fight spread of communis |
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Brinkmanship |
Arts of practice and persuade a dangerous policy |
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Sputnik |
First satellite into orbit |
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Warsaw pact |
Soviet response to nato |
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Eisenhower doctrine |
Us will defend Middle East against Communist |
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Explore one |
Us first satellite |
