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ch.16-17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| satellite state | eastern european countries of poland,hungry,romania,and bulgaria as well as eastern portions of germany. |
| cold war | rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the democratic countries of the Western world, under the leadership of the United States. |
| iron curtain | the guarded border between the countries of the Soviet bloc and the rest of Europe |
| truman doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| George F. Kennan | United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression |
| containment | an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of another, esp. a hostile nation. |
| marshall plan | Informal . any comprehensive program for federally supported economic assistance, as for urban renewal. |
| berlin airlift | A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air |
| nato | an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression |
| warsaw pact | an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command. |
| jiang jieshi | |
| mao zedong | 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist party 1943–76. |
| 38th parallel | |
| douglas macauthor | was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II |
| limited war | a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy |
| SEATO | an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific |
| arms race | competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms. Use arms race in a Sentence |
| mutually assured destruction | a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack |
| john foster dullies | John Foster, 1888–1959, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1953–59. |
| massive retaliation | a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons. |
| brinkmanship | the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage |
| nikita khrushchev | Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64. |
| nationalize | to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land: a movement to nationalize the oil industry. |
| suez crisis | |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency: the U.S. federal agency that coordinates governmental intelligence activities outside the United States. |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| red scare | a period of general fear of communists |
| smith act | |
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee |
| Hollywood Ten | |
| blacklist | a list drawn up by a labor union, containing the names of employers to be boycotted for unfair labor practices |
| Alger hiss | Alger, 1904–96, U.S. public official, accused of espionage 1948 and imprisoned for perjury 1950–54 |
| julius and ethel rosenberg | |
| joseph R.McCarthy | |
| McCarthyism | the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, esp. in order to restrict dissent or political criticism |
| demobilization | to disband (troops, an army, etc.). |
| GI bill of rights | any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans |
| baby boom | a period of sharp increase in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. following World War II |
| productivity | Economics . producing or tending to produce goods and services having exchange value. |
| taft-hartley act | an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes |
| fair deal | the principles of the liberal wing of the Democratic party under the leadership of President Harry S Truman, consisting largely of a continuation and development of the principles of the New Deal. |
| interstate highway act | |
| sunbelt | the southern and southwestern region of the U.S. |
| service sector | |
| information industry | |
| franchise business | |
| multinational corporation | A corporation that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries |
| AFL-CIO | a federation of trade unions formed in 1955 by merger. |
| california master plan | |
| consumerism | the concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy |
| median family income | |
| nuclear family | a social unit composed of father, mother, and children |
| benjamin spock | United States pediatrician whose many books on child care influenced the upbringing of children around the world |
| rock-and-roll | a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure |
| elvis presley | A twentieth-century American rock 'n' roll singer |
| beatnik | a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior, dress, etc. |
| inner city | an older part of a city, densely populated and usually deteriorating, inhabited mainly by poor, often minority |
| urban renewal | the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways |
| termination policy |
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