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APUSH vocab 2.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| San Francisco Conference | Meeting of world nations to establish a international organization for collective security which would later become the United Nations. |
| Central Intelligence Agency | civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. Its primary function is obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers. |
| Marshall Plan | U.S plan initiated by the Secretary of State George Marshall and implemented from 1948 to 1951. To aid in the economic recovery of Europe after WW2 by offering certain European countries substantial funds. |
| Berlin Airlift | Event where U.S. and British airplanes delivered supplies to West Berlin because of the Berlin Blockade |
| Warsaw Pact | Treaty unifying communist nations of Europe. Signed May 1955 by Russia, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, east Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania after signing of the NATO treaty in 1949. Communist China dedicated support but did not sign warsaw pact |
| Korean War | Conflict between North and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953. United States along with other UN countries fought on the side of south Koreans while China fought on the side of the north Koreans |
| Secretary of State John Foster Dulles | Secretary of State during Eisenhower's presidency; constructed many elements of the U.S. foreign policy in the cold war with the Soviet Union |
| SEATO | Alliance formed to prevent communism from spreading to other places |
| CENTO | mutual treaty organization that composed of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and the united kingdom |
| ANZUS | treaty signed to protect the security of the Pacific |
| Suez Crisis | crisis in which egypt tried to gain control of the Suez Canal which was controlled by the French and British |
| U-2 incident | issues between the US and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. plane that was flying over the Soviet Union |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | failed attack launched by the CIA during Kennedy's administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power |
| Cuban Missile crisis | confrontation that brought the United States close to war because of Soviet missiles in Cuba |
| Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | treaty signed by 71 nations which prohibits all nuclear test explosions including those conducted underground |
| Berlin Wall | Heavily fortified barrier put in place by communist to prevent East Germans from escaping to the west |
| Peace Corps | U.S. organization that trains and sends volunteers to help poor people in other countries |
| Six-Day War | war fought between Israel and the neighboring states in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory |
| Yom Kippur War | War in which Egypt and Syria waged launched a surprise attack on Israel during a sacred Jewish festival |
| Dien Bien Phu | town in NW Vietnam which was a site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh ending the French rule of Indochina |
| Vietminh | member of a communist-dominated nationalist movement that fought for Vietnamese independence from Japanese and French rule |
| Vietcong | communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietman that fought its governmnent and was supported by North Vietnam |
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