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McDougal Littell - The Americans - Chp 18 Vocabulary
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03/24/2010

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Satellite nation
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Countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union
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Containment
Definition
An effort to block the Soviet's attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries
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Cold War
Definition
State of hostility short of direct military confrontation
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Truman Doctrine
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Policy that the US should support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeovers
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Marshall Plan
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Proposition that US provides aid to all European nations that needed, against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.
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Berlin Aircraft
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Fly food to west Berlin
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NATO
Definition
Military alliance that promised an attack on one country was an attack on all
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Mao Zedong
Definition
Lead the communists
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Lead the nationalists
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Taiwan (Formosa)
Definition
An island east of mainland China
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38th parallel
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An imaginary line that bisects Korea
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Korean War
Definition
North Korea invaded South Korea
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HUAC
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Agency that investigated possible Communist influences
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Hollywood Ten
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Unfriendly witnesses that did not cooperate with the HUAC because they thought the hearings were unconstitutional
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Blacklist
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List of people condemned for having a Communist background
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Alger Hiss
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State Department official, involved in spy case
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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Communist party, leaked secret of H-bomb
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Senator Joseph McCarthy
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Republican from Wisconsin, accused people of being Communists
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McCarthyism
Definition
Attacks on suspected communists
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H-Bomb
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Hydrogen bomb
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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President when both countries had the H-bomb
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John Foster Dulles
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Secretary of state of Eisenhower
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Brinkmanship
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Willingness to go to the brink of war
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CIA
Definition
Central Intelligence Agency
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
Soviet Union formed its own military alliance
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Head of Soviet Communist Party, criticized predecessor
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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US would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country
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Francis Gary Powers
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U-2 pilot
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U-2 Incident
Definition
Downing of US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union
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