50s Foreign Policy
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| Proposal of massive American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and maintain democracy in Europe | Marshall Plan
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| Stated that the US would support any nation threatened by Communism; issued in response to Communist movements and Soviet aggression in Turkey and Greece | Truman Doctrine
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| Created in 1946 to oversee the research and production of atomic power | Atomic Energy Commission
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| Response to Soviet blockade of Berlin; at its height, an airplane was landing every few minutes | Berlin airlift
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| Leader of the nationalists in the Chinese Civil War who fled with his followers to Formosa or Taiwan | Chiang Kai-Shek
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| Leader of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War | Mao Zedong
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| A member of the State Department, he felt that the best way to keep Communism out of Europe was to confront the Russians wherever they tried to spread their power | Geroge F. Kennan
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| Soviet leader and successor to Stalin who wanted peaceful coexistence with the US | Khrushchev
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| French fortress in North Vietnam destroyed by the Viet Minh; led to the withdrawal of France from Indochina | Dien Bien Phu
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| Communist leader of the North Vietnamese who led the uprising against the French colonial government | Ho Chi Minh
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| Created in 1949; the 11 member nations agreed to fight for each other if attacked | NATO
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| Soviet effort taken in the hopes that the West would give the entire city of Berlin to the Soviets to administer | Berlin blockade
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| The principle of not backing down in a crisis, even if it meant taking the country almost to war | Brinksmanship
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| Proposal and joint resolution by Congress authorizing the use of US military forces to intervene in any country that appeared likely to fall to communism; used in the Middle East | Eisenhower Doctrine
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| Formed in response to NATO, a military organization of the USSR and nations of Eastern Europe; gave the Soviets an excuse for garrisoning troops in these countries | Warsaw Pact
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| Secretary of State who viewed the struggle against Communism as a classic conflict between good and evil; believed in brinksmanship | John Foster Dulles
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| In 1956, this country tried to overthrow the Communist government; it was partly encouraged by the US but America did little to help and the rebellion was crushed | Hungary
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