Chapter 16 vocab
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| satellite state | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation.
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| cold war | worldwide rivalry between the united states and the soviet republic.
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| iron curtain | term coined by winston churchill to describe the border between the soviet satellite 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 wetern european countries after ww2.
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| berlin airlift | program in which us and british pilots flew supplies to wesr berlin during a soviet blockade.
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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 | the dividing line between the allied countries and the soviet countries.
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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 complete to build more powerful weapons.
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| mutually assured destruction | policy in which the us and the soviet union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another.
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| massive retaliation | policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression.
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| brinkmanship | belief that only by going to the brink of war could the us protect itself against communist aggression.
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| nationalize | to place a resource under govt control
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| suez crisis | attempt by france and great britain to seize control of the suez canal in 1956.
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| CIA | intelligence-gathering agency.
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| NASA | govt agency that cooridinates us 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 unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the us govt.
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| HUAC | congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the us.
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| hollywood ten | group of movie writers, directors, and producers, who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties.
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| blacklist | list of persons who were not hired because od suspected communist ties.
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| mccarthyism | negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty.
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| eisenhower doctrine | policy of president eisenhower that stated the us would use force to help any nation threatened by communism.
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| truman doctrine | president truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
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