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United Nations

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Satellite Nation

A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

Containment

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

Iron Curtain

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Cold War

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

Truman Doctrine

President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

Marshall Plan

A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe.

Berlin Airlift

airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.

Mao Zedong

Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976.

Taiwan

an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of China- Part of the Republic of China - Communist

38th Parallel

Line that divided Korea - Soviet Union occupied the north and United States occupied the south, during the Cold War.

Korean War

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.

HUAC

accused people of being communists and "blacklisted" them.

Hollywood Ten

Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood

Blacklist

A list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval.

Alger Hiss

A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

American communists in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Theirs was the first execution of civilians in US

Joseph McCarthy

United States politician who accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)

McCarthyism

The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism

H-Bomb

hydrogen bomb MORE powerful than atomic bomb, example of Cold War arms race

Dwight D. Eisenhower

contain the spread of communism

he threatened to use nuclear weapons until China agreed to peace terms in the Korean War

Brinkmanship

the willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down

CIA

Cold War espionage

espionage

spying

Warsaw Pact

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Eisenhower Doctrine

Policy of the US that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country

Nikita Khrushchev

A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia.

U-2 Incident

the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960