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Chapter 20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Truman Doctrine | stated that the United States would provide money to countries (in this case, Greece) threatened by Communist expansion. |
| Dean Acheson | the U.S. secretary of state |
| Marshall Plan | designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe. |
| satellite states | The political term satellite state designates a country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control of another country. |
| policy of containment | keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent further Soviet aggressive moves |
| arms race | both countries built up their armies and weapons |
| NATO | Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland signed a treaty with the United States and Canada |
| Warsaw Pact | the Soviet Union joined with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania in a formal military alliance |
| SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
| CENTO | Central Treaty Organization |
| deterrence | This policy held that huge arsenals of nuclear weapons on both sides prevented war |
| Nikita Khrushchev | emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955, tried to take advantage of the American concern over missiles to solve the problem of West Berlin. |
| Domino theory | The theory that an event in one country will cause similar events in another country |
| Heavy industry | the manufacture of machines and equipment for factories and mines |
| de-Stalinization | process of eliminating the more ruthless policies of Stalin |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Russian novelist |
| Tito | the leader of the Communist resistance movement |
| Imre Nagy | the Hungarian leader, declared Hungary a free nation on November 1, 1956, and promised free elections |
| Alexander Dubcek | was elected first secretary of the Communist Party |
| Charles de Gaulle | Gaulle helped establish a new govern- ment called the Fourth Republic |
| welfare state | a state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services and a minimal standard of living |
| bloc | a group of nations with a common pur- pose |
| real wages | the actual purchasing power of income |
| John F. Kennedy | became the youngest elected president in the history of the United States |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | leader of a growing movement for racial equality |
| consumer society | a society preoccupied with buying goods |
| Simone de Beauvoir | she published her highly influential work, The Second Sex |
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