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What is the term for: and independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation? |
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Satellite State |
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What is the term for: a world-wide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union? |
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Cold War |
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What is the term for: a term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe? |
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iron curtain |
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What is the term for: President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements? |
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Truman Doctrine |
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What is the term for: policy of keeping communism contained within it's existing borders? |
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containment |
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What is the term for: an economic and foreign policy that offered aid to Western European countries after World War II? |
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the Marshall Plan |
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What is the term for: a program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade? |
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Berlin airlift |
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What is the term for: military alliance formed to counter Soviet expanison? |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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What is the term for: military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states? |
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Warsaw Pact |
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An American diplomat and a leading authority on the Soviet Union |
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George F. Kennan |
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He was the Nationalist leader during the Chinese Civil War. Backed by the United States. |
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Jiang Jieshi |
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He was the Communist leader during the Chinese Civil War. Backed by the Soviet Union. |
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Mao Zedong |
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The dividing line of North and South Korea. |
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38th Parallel |
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World War II hero who helped the US come to victory during the Korean War |
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Douglas MacArthur |
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What is the term for: war fought to achieve only specific goals? |
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Limited War |
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What is the term for: a Defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia? |
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) |
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What is the term for: a contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons? |
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Arms Race |
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What is the term for: a policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear way by building up enough weapons to destroy one another? |
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Mutually Assured Destruction |
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He was an experienced diplomat who had helped organize the United Nations after World War II |
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John Foster Dulles |
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What is the term for: a policy of threatening to use massive force in responce to aggression? |
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Massive Retailiation |
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What is the term for: a belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect against Communiest aggression? |
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Brinkmanship |
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He was the new head of the Soviet Union after Stalin died on March 5, 1953. |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
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What is the term for: to place a resource under government control? |
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Nationalize |
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What is the term for: and attempt by France and Great Britain to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956? |
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Suez Crisis |
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What is the term for: policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism? |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
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What is the term for: U.S. intellignece gathering organization? |
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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What is the term for: government agency that coordinates US efforts in space? |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
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What is the term for: fear that Communists were working to destroy the American way of life? |
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The Red Scare |
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What is the term for: a law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government? |
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Smith Act |
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What is the term for: congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States? |
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House Un-American Activites Committee (HUAC) |
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What is the term for: group of movie writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about alleged communist ties? |
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Hollywood Ten |
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What is the term for: a list of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties? |
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blacklist |
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He was a government agent involved in long trial |
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Alger Hiss |
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What is the term for: a poor couple in NYC who were convicted to death for giving Atomic Bomb information to Russian Agents? |
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Julien and Ethel Rosenberg |
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He was a senator from WI who claimed to have a list of over 250 people in the government who were Communist. |
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Joseph R. McCarthy |
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What is the term for: negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty |
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McCarthyism |
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