Exam

Rio Pact - a regional defense alliance with 18 other nations in the Western

Hemisphere

Federal Employee Loyalty Program - all new employees hired by the federal

government were to be investigated

McCarthyism - aggressive exposure to communist influences in America and

the people who protect them

Josip Broz

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - the association of democratic

and peace loving states to defend Western Europe against an attack by the

Soviet Union

Alger Hiss- Soviet Spy who was exposed in the Venona files

Japan

Israel

Jiang Jieshi - leader of the nationalists in China

Collective Security - an armed attack against 1 or more of them will be

considered an attack against them all

Berlin Airlift-Operation to supply West Berlin during Soviet blockade

through the air.

Containment-U.S. Strategy to prevent the spread of Communism.

John Foster Dulles - Secretary of State; harsh anti communist; the best at

Brinkmanship

Hydrogen or Thermonuclear bomb

Organization of American States

Warsaw Pact-Military alliance of communist nations in 1955.

Seoul - capital of South Korea

Explorer 1 - America’s first artificial satellite to orbit the earth

Douglas MacArthur

Pyongyang - capital of North Korea

Iron Curtain-Division between East and West Germany to divide communist

and non communist parts of Europe.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Joseph McCarthy - the face of anti- communism; senator; made accusations

in the government that sabotaged his reputation

Sputnik - first artificial satellite to orbit the earth(Soviets)

Satellite Nations

Gamal Abdel Nasser -

Panmunjom

U-2 spy plane - not fast, not maneuverable, no weapons only cruises and is

used for spying. Flew 15 miles above the ground

Deterrence - the policy of making the military power of the US and its allies

so strong that no enemy would attack of fear of retaliation; peace through

strength

Chosin Reservoir - a man-made lake in North Korea; A battle between the US

1st Marine Division and 2 Chinese armies and the U.S. wins with 80,000

Chinese casualties

Iran

Military-Industrial Complex

Eisenhower Doctrine - The US would use force to safeguard the

independence of any country or group of countries in the Middle East

requesting aid against communist regression

Guatemala -

Brinkmanship - the practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of

safety before stopping

Inchon

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg - exposed in Venona files

Mao Zedong - leader of the communists in China; supplied North Korea with

supplies during the Korean War

Arms Race - the struggle to gain weapon superiority

Lebanon

Kim Il Sung - dictator of North Korea

Pusan - a port city that the U.S. needs to protect, or else it will lose the flow

of supplies. Create the Pusan Perimeter to protect Pusan.

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - oversee the

American Space program, so we could compete with the Soviets

Venona Files - will release further information about Soviet espionage;

declassified in 1995

Cold War

Gary Powers - CIA pilot that was put on trial for the U-2 incident; theories -

human error, double agent, Soviet agent planted bomb; sentenced to

espionage - 3 years prison and 7 years hard labor; US would make a prisoner

exchange

Helicopters - first used in the Korean war; not used for combat