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United Nations (UN)
An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development
Satellite Nation
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation
Containment
The blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence - especially the efforts of the US blocking the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s
Iron Curtain
A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe
Cold War
The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the Soviet Union after WW2
Truman Doctrine
A US policy, announced by President Harry S Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
Marshall Plan
The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WW2
Berlin Airlift
A 327-day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the US, & Canada
Mao Zedong
The leader of the communists during the time that Chiang Kai-Shek ruled in China. They helped peasants to gain political control and support.
Taiwan
An island in East Asia off the Southeast coast; also known as Formosa
38th Parallel
38th North Latitude
Korean War
A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953, in which the US along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans
HUAC
A congressional committee that investigated communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following WW2
Hollywood Ten
Ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC’s investigation of communist influence in Hollywood
Blacklist
A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged communist connections
Alger Hiss
An American government official accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s and was convicted of perjury
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Minor activists in the American Communist Party who were convicted for spying for the Soviet Union
Joseph McCarthy
A republican US senator who claimed that there were Soviet spies and communists within the government, but had no evidence; discredited by the US senate
McCarthyism
The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being communists in the early 1950s
H-Bomb
The hydrogen bomb; a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The president during the Cold War
Brinkmanship
The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
A US agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites
Eisenhower Doctrine
A US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957
Nikita Krushchev
Ruled the USSR from 1958-1964; lessened government control of Soviet citizens; seeked peaceful coexistence with the West instead of confrontation
U-2 Incident
The downing of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
