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Cold war
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Containment | To stop the spread of Soviet influence |
| Truman doctrine | The plan to put in place by president truman to send aid to Greece and turkey when they were threatened by the communist takeover clear beginning of the Cold War |
| Marshall plain | Improve political stability,become strong allies ,create trading partners with the us |
| Berlin airlift | United States Air Force and the British Royal Air Force flew over 200,000 flights to Berlin in 1948 they delivered more than 4700 tons of food and supplies every day the success of Berlin airlift was an embarrassment to the Soviet union |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty organization |
| Sputnik | Americans felt they were falling behind the soviets in technology and they would use this technology to use missles to launch nuclear bombs |
| HUAK | The house of un-American activities |
| McCarthyism | Making harsh accusations without evidence |
| Great migration | The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1 |
| Cuban missile crisis | Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade in Cuba to prevent the missles from arriving |