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History ch16 vocab

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1. satellite state independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation
2.Cold War Worldwide rivalry between the U.S. 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 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 WWII
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
12.Mao Zedong communist leader
13. 38th parallel dividing line between north and south Korea
14.Douglas MacArthur had a bold plan to drive 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 U.S. and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another
19.John Foster Dulles Eisenhower's secretary of state who was an experienced diplomat who had helped organize the U.N. after WWII
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 U.S. protect itself against communist aggression
22.Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new head of the Soviet Union after Stalin died
23.nationalize to place a resource under government control
24.Suez crisis attempt by France and Great Britain to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956
25.Eisenhower Doctrine policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the U.S. would use force to help any nation threatened by communism
26.CIA Central Intelligence Agency - U.S. intelligence-gathering organization
27.NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration - government agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space
28.Red Scare fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
29.Smith Act law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government
30.HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee - congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the U.S.
31.Hollywood Ten group of movie writers,directors,and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communism ties
32.blacklist list of people who were not hired because of suspected communist ties
33.Alger Hiss tried for perjury and was found guilty at his 2nd trial
34. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg charged with conspiring to pass secret information about nuclear science to Soviet agents and were killed
35.Joseph R. McCarthy senator of Wisconsin charged that the State Department was infested with communist agents
36.McCarthyism negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty
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