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Cold war heats up
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marshall Plan | plan to restore the health of the world by providing aid until the worlds economies are stable |
| the berlin airlift | US pilots delivered supplies to west berlin by parachuting them down |
| NATO | canada, us joined belgium, britain, denmark, france, iceland, italy, luxembourg, netherlands, norway and portugal agreed to band together in war and protect each nation involved |
| soviet atomic threat | an atomic explosion occurred in the USSR causing the US to prepare citizens for how to survive a nuclear attack |
| China Falls to the Communists | after a long political struggle, chinas communist party took over. |
| the loyalty program | government program to root out any communist and punish them for their crimes |
| hollywood ten | group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding communist influence in hollywood |
| mccaran-walter act | passed by congress in 1952, this law reaffirmed the quota system that had been established for each country in 1924 |
| HUAC | investigate disloyalty in america regarding communism |