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Cold war
Question | Answer |
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MAD | Us or USSR would not use nuclear weapons |
Massive Relation | Us promised to respond with crushing force to attack on any soviets |
Brinkmanship | To go to the edge of all out war |
Nationalize | Business owned by the Government |
Suez Crisis | In 1956, Egyptian President Gama Nasser seized the Suez Canal from its French and British owners, sparking an invasion by those Western nations and their ally, Israel. |
Eisenhower Doctrine | a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the federal agency that is responsible for aerospace research, |
Hollywood ten | Group of movie, writers who would refuse to answer HUAC questions about communism |
Black list | List of people who didn't get hired because of suspected communist |
Smith Act | Law that made it awful to teach or advocate that overthrew the government |
Arms Race | competition between nations for superiority in development and accumulation of weapons. |