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Chapter 26 names + t
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Satellite nation | |
| Containment | |
| Cold War | |
| Truman Doctrine | |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada. |
| a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen. | |
| It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The 38th parallel north has been especially important in the recent history of Korea. | |
| a Chinese revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, poet, political theorist, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. | |
| Korean War | |
| Hollywood Ten | Ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC’s investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood. |
| Blacklist | A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections. |
| Alger Hiss | An American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and UN official. |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | They were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. |
| an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. | |
| McCarthyism | The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s |
| H-bomb | The hydrogen bomb a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| John Foster Dulles | |
| Brinkmanship | |
| The Central Intelligence Agency a U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments. | |
| A U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957. |
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