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Cold War Ch. 27
Vocabulary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The execution of a group based on its race or political views | Genocide |
| A group of people working together for a common cause | Organization |
| The disagreements between communists and non-communists nations over economics and politics that caused tension following World War II | Cold War |
| To lower upon | Descend |
| Complete control | Domination |
| The policy of using strength or threat of force to prevent the spread of communism | Containment policy |
| Using planes to deliver food and supplies | Airlift |
| offensive Attacking rather than defending | Offensive |
| War that uses atomic weapons | Nuclear War |
| A charge of wrongdoing | Accusation |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy campaign to use fear of communism for his own gains | McCarthyism |
| How a person is judged by others | Reputation |
| The use of machines to do work | Automation |
| A States military force | National Guard |
| The use of science to create new machines or other advances | Technology |
| Human made object that travels in outer space and sends signals back to earth | Artificial Satellite |
| History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first artificial satellite | Sputnik |