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Chapter 16 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Satellite state | a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country |
| 2. Cold War | was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, |
| 3. Iron Curtain | symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas |
| 4. Truman Doctrine | stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere |
| 5. Containment | United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism |
| 6. Marshall Plan | was the American program to aid Europe |
| 7. Berlin airlift | US dropped supplies and food to Western Europe countries |
| 8. NATO | The organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party |
| 9. Warsaw Pact | a military treaty of E European countries, by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania: |
| 10. 38th Parallel | latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea |
| 11. Limited war | a conflict in which the belligerents participating in the war |
| 12. SEATO | an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia |
| 13. Arms race | a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces |
| 14. Mutually assured destruction | a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy |
| 15. Massive retaliation | a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack |
| 16. Brinkmanship | the practice of pushing dangerous events to the to the brink of disaster |
| 17. Nationalize | the process of taking a private industry or private assets into public ownership |
| 18. Suez Crisis | a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel |
| 19. Eisenhower Doctrine | a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state |
| 20. CIA | an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States government |
| 21. NANA | |
| 22. Red Scare | Fear of communism |
| 23. Smith Act | a United States federal statute that set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government |
| 24. HUAC | n investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives |
| 25. Hollywood Ten | he mid-20th-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or associations, real or suspected |
| 26. Blacklist | a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition |
| 27. McCarthyism | the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence |
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