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Chapter 18
10th Grade The Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| United Nations | 50 nations came together to establish this new peacekeeping Charter establishing the UN |
| Satellite Nations | countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
| Containment | taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries |
| Iron Curtain | came to stand for the division of Europe |
| Cold War | a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the battlefield |
| Truman Doctrine | he declared that "it must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugating by armed minorities or by outside pressures |
| Marshall Plan | the US provide aid to all European nations that needed it |
| Berlin Airlift | to fly food and supplies into West Berlin |
| Korean War | surprise attack on South Korea |
| black list | people whom they condemned for having a Communist background |
| Alger Hiss | former communist spy |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | minor activists in the American Communist Party |
| Joseph McCarthy | a Republican from Wisconsin |
| H-Bomb | a bomb with 1 million tons of TNT |
| Warsaw Pact | linked the Soviet Union would allow flights over Eastern European countries |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | the US would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country |
| U2-Incident | the 1960s opened with tension between the two superpowers as great as ever |