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U.S. History
Topic 10 "Cold War"
Question | Answer |
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Yalta Conference | 1945 Strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
Potsdam | Meeting between Truman and Stalin that lead to Truman fearing Stalin had a plan of "world conquest" |
Iron Curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe |
Truman Doctrine | Presidents Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movement starting with Greece and Turkey. |
Marshall Plan | Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western Europe countries after World War II |
NATO | Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion and communist movements |
Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states |
Korean War | War between North and South Korea, in which the United States fought for the South, and China was was assisted by the Soviet Union fought for the North. |
38th parallel | The dividing line between North and South Korea which divided it into two independent countries. |
Douglas MacArthur | General and WWII hero who was pivotal in the Korean War. He developed a plan to drive back the invaders of South Korea |
McCarthyism | Negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty |
Brinkmanship | Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against communist aggression. |
Communism | a socioeconomic system structured upon common ownership of production and the absence of social classes. |
Central Intelligence Agency | U.S. intelligence gathering organization |
House Un-American Activities Committee | Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States |