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History 10 Kosloski

Cold War and Korean War Vocab

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Cold War and Korean War Vocab History 10 Kosloski
The attacks, often unsubstantiated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists..... McCarthysim
Ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with HUAC's investigation of Communists influence in Hollywood...... Hollywood Ten
Phrased used by Winston Churchill to describe an imaginary line that separate Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe..... Iron Curtain
Blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence..... Containment
Secretary of State George Marshall's plan which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help rebuild after WWII..... Marshall Plan
International peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong. Founded in 1945 to promote world peace...... United Nations
The line on the map that marks the border between North Korea and South Korea....... 38th Parallel
List of 500 actors, writers, producers and directors who were not allowed to work in Hollywood films...... Blacklist
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union...... NATO
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation..... Satellite Nation
Idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control...... Domino Theory
House Un-American Activities Committee. Congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government following WWII..... HUAC
U.S. policy of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal and external opponents..... Truman Doctrine
Practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression..... Brinkmanship
327- day operation in which the U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after Soviets blocked the city in 1948..... Berlin Airlift
Military alliance formed in 1955 by Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites..... Warsaw Pact
State of hostility that developed between U.S and Soviet Union after WWII...... Cold War
Hydrogen bomb, thermonuclear weapon that is much more powerful than the atomic bomb..... H-Bomb
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