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ChapterSixteenVocab

Chapter Sixteen Vocabulary U.S.History

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1. satellite state: independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation.
2. Cold War: worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
3. iron curtain: term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe.
4. Truman Doctrine: President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
5. George F. Kennan: an American diplomat and a leading authority on the Soviet Union.
6. containment: policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders.
7. Marshall Plan: foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War 2.
8. Berlin airlift: program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
9. NATO: military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion.
10. Warsaw Pact: military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
11. Jiang Jieshi: the Nationalist leader.
12. Mao Zedong: the Communist leader.
13. 38th Parallel: dividing line between North and South Korea.
14. Douglas MacArthur: the World War 2 hero.
15. limited war: war fought to achieve only specific goals.
16. SEATO: defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia.
17. arms race: contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons.
18. mutually assured destruction: policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enouch weapons to destroy one another.
19. John Foster Dulles: Eisenhower's secretary of state.
20. massive retaliation: policy of threatening to use massive force in responce to aggression.
21. brinkmanship: belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself from communist aggression.
22. Nikita Khrushchev: the new head of the Soviet Union.
23. nationalize: to place a resource under government control.
24. Suez crisis: attempt by France and Great Britain to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956
25. Eisenhower Doctrine: policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism.
26. CIA: U.S. intelligence-gathering organization.
27. NASA: government agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space.
28. Red Scare: fear that the communists were working to destroy the American way of life.
29. Smith Act: law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government.
30. HUAC: congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States.
31. Hollywood Ten: group of movie writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties.
32. blacklist: list of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties.
33. Alger Hiss: tried in court for being a spy.
34. Julius and Ethel Rosenburg: tried in court for being spies.
35. Joseph R. McCarthy: the senator of West Virginia who charged that the State Department was infested with communist agents.
36. McCarthyism: negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty.
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