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31 Cards in this Set
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United Nations |
world peace keeping body |
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satellite nations |
countries subject to Soviet domination, both politically and economically |
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containment |
U.S. policy of resistance to Soviet attempts at expanding Communism |
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iron curtain |
philosophical "wall" of Soviet domination and oppression |
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cold war |
competition between U.S. and USSR for power and influence in the world |
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Truman Doctrine |
passed to help free people fight against armed minorities and outside pressures |
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Marshall Plan |
American financial aid program for helping Western Europe recover |
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Berlin air lift |
U.S. and Great Britain planes providing vital supplies to the blockaded West Berlin people |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization , formed an alliance of nations that would support each other in war and stop the spread of Communism |
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Warsaw Pact |
alliance of Soviet dominated nations |
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Chiang Kai-shek |
leader of the Chinese Nationalist, who received help from the U.S. to resist Communism |
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Mao Zedong |
leader of the Chinese Communist rebels |
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Taiwan |
island where Nationalist fled after being defeated by Chinese Communists |
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38th parallel |
dividing line between North and South Korea |
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Korean War |
conflict between the Communist North Korean and the Democratic South Koreans |
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Hollywood Ten |
ten men in the film industry who refused to answer questions before the HUAC, where sent to prison |
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HUAC |
House of UN-American Activities Committee; probed the government for Communist infiltration |
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blacklist |
a list of people who were condemned for having Communist backgrounds |
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Alger Hiss |
accused of being a Soviet spy, Richard Nixon pursued charges against Hiss and he was convicted of perjury |
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
implicated in helping the Soviet Union obtain the atomic bomb, found guilty and sentenced to death |
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Joseph McCarthy |
Senator who became a anti-communist crusader, falsely accusing 100s of innocent people |
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McCarthyism |
attacks on suspected communist in the early 1950s |
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H-Bomb |
hydrogen bomb -67 times more powerful than the atom bombs used in WWII |
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Dwight D Eisenhower |
President of the United States who was willing to go to war against Soviet Union |
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John Foster Dulles |
Secretary of State under Eisenhower who was a staunch anti-communist and thought the threat of war would stop the spread of Communism |
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brinkmanship |
willingness to go to the edge of all out war |
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Central Intelligence Agency |
used spies and covert operations to overthrow unfriendly governements |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
U.S. would defend the Middle East against any attack by a communist nation |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
favored a policy of peaceful coexistence in which the Soviets would compete economically and scientifically |
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Francis Gray Powers |
U-2 pilot |
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U-2 incident |
shooting down of a U.S. spy plane |
