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Sandra Garcia

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1.satellite state independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation
2.Cold War worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
3.iron curtain term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe
4.Truman Doctrine President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements
5.George F.Kennan a writer who called himself "X" published an article titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct".An American diplomat and a leading authority on the Soviet Union
6.containment policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders
7.Marshall Plan foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II
8.Berlin airlift program in which U.S and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
9.NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)-military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion
10.Warsaw Pact military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states
11.Jiang Jieshi Nationalist leader known in the U.S as Chiang Kai-sheck, had been fighting a civil war against communists
12.Mao Zedong joined forces in an uneasy alliance to fight Japan
13.38th parallel the dividing line of latitude
14.Douglas MacArthur General,the World War II hero,had a bold plan to drive the invaders from South Korea
15.limited war war fought to achieve only specific goals
16.SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization)-defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia
17.arms race contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons
18.mutually assured destruction policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enoughweapons to destroy one another
19.John Foster Dulles was an experienced diplomat who had helped organize the United Nations after World War II
20.massive retaliation policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression
21.brinkmanship belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against communist agression
22.Nikita Khrushchev soon emerged as the new head of the Soviet Union
23.nationalize to place a resource under goverment control
24.Suez crisis an excuse to seize control of the Suez Canal
25.Eisenhower Doctrine announced that the United States would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism
26.CIA U.S. intelligence-gathering organization
27.NASA government agency that that coordinates U.S. effort in space
28.Red Scare fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
29.Smith Act to criple the Communist Party in the United States
30.HUAC congressional committe that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States
31.Hollywood Ten group of movie writers directers and producers who refused to answer HUAC question about communist ties
32.blacklist list of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties
33.Alger Hiss had been educated at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School
34.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were from the poor ,lower east side of Manhattan
35.Joseph R.McCarthy became a catchword for extreme,reckless charges
36.McCarthyism negative catchword for extreme reckless charges of disloyalty
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