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| a U.S. commitment to defend the MIddle East agains attack by any communist country, announced by Presiden Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 |
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| the hydrogen bomb -- a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb |
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| a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites |
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| the blocking of another nation's attempt to spread its influence -- especiall the efforts of the US to block the spreaod of Soviet influence the late 1940s and early 1950s. |
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| a major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated business |
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| the U.S. government's plan announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discounting the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands |
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| a Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during World War II |
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| Eisenhower's secretary of State who was anti-communist. Cold war was a moral crusade against Communism for him |
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| the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any agression |
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| Ruled in Southern and Eastern China, relied heavilly on aid from U.S., nationalist, struggled with inflation and failing economy |
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| a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation |
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| Ruled in Northern China, communist, financial aid from Soviet Union |
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| one of the Southern Delegates who, to protest president Truman's civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party |
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| Truman's economic program -- an extension of FDR's New Deal -- which included measures to increase minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families |
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| Developed a vaccine for the crippling desease poliomyeletis -- polio |
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| He believed that Communism could take over the world but it would triumph peacefully. Believed in peaceful coexsitence |
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