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chapter26
cold war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| iron curtain | the new battlefront of the cold war |
| containment | the policy used to address concerns |
| marshall plan | called for the nations of europe to draw up a program for economic recovery from the war |
| nato | north atlantic treaty organization |
| nsc-68 | american policy in a document |
| satellite nation | countries controlled politically and economically by the soviet union |
| 38th parallel | the latitude line that runs through korea at 38 degrees |
| domino theory | compared countries to dominos and held that "you have a row of dominos set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly" |
| 17th parallel | that line in which vietnam will be divided |
| huac | the house un-american activities committee |
| berlin airlift | moving supplies into west berlin by plane |
| cold war | the bitter state of indirect conflict that exsisted between the u.s. and the soviet union |
| truman doctrine | a statement to congress truman addressed |
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