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Cold War-Rickard
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an era of high tension and bitter rivalry known between the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of World War II | The Cold War |
| term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe during the Cold War | Iron Curtain |
| U.S. policy adopted in the late 1940s to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets | Containment |
| President Truman's pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism; $ 400 million to Greece and Turkey | Truman Doctrine |
| plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II; announced by the U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall | Marshall Plan |
| an American diplomat and creator of the containment policy; ambassador to the Soviet Union | George F. Kennan |
| a program in which the United States and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade of all routes to the city | Berlin Airlift |
| a defensive military alliance involving the U.S., Canada, and ten European nations; North Atlantic Treaty Organization | NATO |
| act that helped veterans make a smooth entry into civilian life by providing money for attending college or for advanced job training; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 | GI Bill |
| a dramatic rise in the birthrate following World War II | Baby Boom |
| leader of the Nationnalist government in China | Chiang Kai-shek |
| leader of the Communist regime in China | Mao Zedong |
| committee formed inthe House of Representatives in the 1930s to investigate radical groups in the United States; it later came to focus on the threat of communism in the United States during World War II and the Cold War | House Un-American Activities Committee; HUAC |
| famous HUAC investigation; ten Hollywood writers and directors who were thought to hold radical political views; called to testify and refused to answer question, sent to jail | Hollywood Ten |
| law that made it a crime to call for the overthrow of the U.S. government or belong to an organization that did so | Smith Act-1949 |
| senator from Wisconsin; claimed that 205 known Communists worked for the U.S. government | Joseph McCarthy |
| McCarthy's tactic of spreading fear and making baseless charges | McCarthyism |
| a former government official who was accused of being a spy for the Soviets | Alger Hiss |
| a couple that was convicted of passing military secrets; received the death penalty and were the first civilians executed for espionage | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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