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Chapter 16 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Satellite state | ind. nation under control of a more powerful nation |
| Cold War | 46 yr old struggle which 2 superpowers never faced eachother directly in a "hot" military conflict |
| iron curtain | a map of Europe, churchill described |
| containment | its goal was to keep communism contained within its existing brothers |
| Marshall Plan | the U.S. gave 13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe |
| Berlin airlift | demenstrated how far the U.S. would go to protect noncommunist parts of Europe and contain communism |
| NATO | provided military alliance to counter Sovet expansion |
| Warsaw Pact | an rival military alliance formed by the soviet union |
| 38th parallel | Its use for the partition of Korea was proposed at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 |
| limited war | fought only to achieve certain goals |
| SEATO | a defensive alliance aimed at preventing the spread of communism |
| arms race | contest in which nations compete to build the most powerful weapons |
| mutually assured destruction | prevent either country from actually using a nuclear device aganist another |
| massive retaliatuion | policy of threatening to use massive force |
| brinkmanship | belief that the U.S. could only go to the brink of war to protect itself from communist aggression |
| nationalize | placing under govt, control |
| Suez crisis | attempt by france and great britan to seize control of the suez canal |
| CIA | used during a struggle aganist communism |
| NASA | used to coordinate the space related efforts of American scientists and the military |
| Red Scare | the fear that communists both inside and outside America were working to destroy American life |
| Smith Act | to cripple communist party in the U.S. |
| HUAC | to investigate possible subversive activities by fascists, Nazis, or communists |
| Hollywood Ten | a group of left wing writers, directors, and producers |
| blacklist | entertainment figures who should not be hired because of their suspected communist ties |
| McCarthyism | extreme reckless charges |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's promise to aid nations struggling aganist communist movements |
| Isenhower Doctrine | stated that the United States would use armed forces upon request in response to imminent or actual aggression to the United States. |
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