chapter 16
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| satellite state | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation.
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| cold war | worldwide rivarly between the united states and the soviet union.
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| iron curtain | term coined by Winston churchill to describe the border between the soviet satelite states and western europe.
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| containment | policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders.
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| marshall plan | foreign policy that offered economic aid to western Europe countries after world war 2.
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| berlin airlift | program in which us and British pilots flew supplies to west Berlin during a soviet Stock dale.
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| Nato | military alliance formed to counter soviet expansion.
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| warsaw pact | military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
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| 38th parallel | dividing line between North and South Korea.
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| limited war | war fought to achieve only specific goals.
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| SEATO | defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia.
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| arms race | contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons.
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| mutually assured destruction | organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community.
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| massive retaliatution | policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression.
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| brinkmanship | The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
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| nationalize | Make distinctively national; give a national character to.
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| Suez crisis | attempt by France and Great Britian to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1965.
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| CIA | U.S. intelligence-gathering organization
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| NASA | Gov. agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space.
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| red scare | Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.
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| smith act | law that made it lawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Gov.
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| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee.
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| Hollywood ten | The Hollywood blacklist as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally know was the mid-twentieth-century
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| blacklist | A list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval.
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| McCarthyism | A campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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| truman doctrine | he principle, first expressed in 1947 by US President Truman.
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| eisenhower doctrine | The term Eisenhower Doctrine refers to a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957.
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