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Unit 13
Cold War chapter 26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| containment | taking measures to prevent the spread of communism |
| Iron Curtain | refers to the division of Europe, came from a speech given by Winston Churchill |
| Cold War | conflict between the US and the USSR in which neither nation directly confronted each other on the battlefield |
| Truman Doctrine | military arm of containment |
| Marshall Plan | economic arm of containment |
| NATO | defensive military alliance of America and 11 other nations to provide military support to one another |
| Blacklist | list of people whom Hollywood executives condemned for having a communist background and their careers were ruined |
| McCarthyism | attacks on suspected Communists |
| Brinkmanship | belief that the US would use all of its force, including nuclear weapons against any aggressor nation |
| Warsaw Pact | Soviet Union military alliance with seven other European countries |
| United Nations | Peacekeeping body |
| HUAC | House of Unamerican Activities Committee which investigated communist infiltration into the US government |
| Satellite nation | nation controlled by the USSR after WWII |
| U2 Incident | the capturing of an American pilot following the shooting down of his spy plane that increased tension between the US and USSR |
| Berlin Blockade | attempt by Stalin to obtain all of Berlin, by blockading West Berlin. Americans saved the city airlifting in needed food and supplies for 11 months |
| arms race | competition between the US and USSR in military technology, started with the A bomb and continued with the H bomb and ICBMs |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency - designed to gather covert information on foreign nations |
| Sputnik | World's first satellite launched by the Soviets |
| domino theory | belief that if one nations falls to communism, so will another and another, justified involvement in Korea and Vietnam |
| Germany after the War | divided into 4 zones occupied by the Allies, Soviets create East Germany |
| Korea | divided into North and South, North Korea's invasion of South leads to the Korean War |
| Bert the Turtle | Created by the Civil Defense Administration to educate kids on how to duck and cover for protection in the event of an atomic attack |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | husband and wife team executed for espionage in 1953 |
| Pusan Perimeter | area of American military in South Korea |
| General Douglas MacArthur | led UN forces in the Korean War, wanted to broaden the war, crossed the 38th parallel causing China to enter the conflict |
| Changjin Reservoir engagement | Marines were surprised, surrounded, and outnumbered by Chinese forces |
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