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Chapter 16
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1)Satellite state | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| 2)Cold War | worldwide rivalry between the united nations and the soviet union |
| 3)Iron Curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet Union states and the Western Europe |
| 4)Truman Doctrine | Pres. Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements |
| 5)containment | policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders |
| 6)Marshall Plan | foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European Countries after WW2 |
| 7)Berlin airlift | program that U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade |
| 8)North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) | 1949 provided the military alliance to counter Soviet expansion |
| 9)Warsaw Pact | military alliance between the Soviet Union and the satellite states |
| 10)38th parallel | the line set to slip the Korea |
| 11)limited war | war fought to achieve only specific goals |
| 12)Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) | was a defensive alliance aimed at preventing the spread of communism |
| 13)arms race | contest in which nation compete to build more powerful weapons |
| 14)mutually assured destruction | policy in which the U.S. and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another |
| 15)massive retaliation | policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggresion |
| 16)brinkmanship | belief that only by going to the brink of war could the U.S. protect itself against communist aggression |
| 17)nationalize | to place a resource under gov't control |
| 18)Suez crisis | attempt by France and great Britain to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956 |
| 19)Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) | U.S. intelligence -gathering organization |
| 20)National Aeronautics and space Administration(NASA) | coordinate the space-related efforts of American scientists and the military |
| 21)Red Scare | a fear that communists both inside and outside Americans were working to destroy American life |
| 22)Smith Act | law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. gov't |
| 23)House Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC) | congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the U.S. |
| 24)Hollywood Ten | group of movie writers ,directors , and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties |
| 25)blacklist | list of people who were not hired because of suspect communist ties |
| 26)McCarthyism | negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty |
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