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vocabulary 16
Demontes earls Mrs hunt 4th block
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| satellite state | country which is in a formal manner sovereign but in fact is controlled or ruled by a larger neighboring predominant power |
| cold war | post-World War II political and economic struggle between the USA and its western European allies against the Soviet Union and its eastern European allies |
| iron curtain | the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. |
| containment | act or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power |
| Marshall plan | American plan for rebuilding Europe in the years after World War II |
| Berlin airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
| north Atlantic treaty organization | military alliance formed to counter USSR expansion |
| Warsaw pect | A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, |
| 38th parallel | is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. |
| limited war | war in which a nation does not use all available weapons and military power |
| southeast Asia treaty organization | was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. |
| arm race | competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms. |
| mutually assured destruction | a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. |
| massive retaliation | is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. |
| brinkmanship | the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. |
| nationalized | transfer (a major branch of industry or commerce) from private to state ownership or control. |
| central intelligence agency | is one of the principal intelligence-gathering agencies of the United States federal government. |
| national aeronautics and space administration | NASA, U.S. agency in charge of space programs |
| red scare | either of two periods characterized by extreme public fear of Communists and the principles of socialism |
| smith act | U.S. federal law passed in 1940 that made it a criminal offense to advocate violent overthrow of the government or to organize or be a member of any group or society devoted to such advocacy. |
| huac | an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. |
| Hollywood ten | ten members of the film industry who were sent to jail for refusing to answer questions about their political beliefs during the HUAC hearings in 1947 (U.S. History) |
| blackist | list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval. |
| McCarthyism | a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54 |
| Suez crisis | france & great britain attempted to seize control of Suez canal |
| Eisenhower doctrine | policy established by U.S. President Eisenhower in 1957 in which financial and military aid was promised to any Middle Eastern country that fought Communism |
| turman doctrine | |
| mao zeddong | |
| jiang jieshi |
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