Chapter 20
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Truman Doctrine | stated that the United States would provide money
to countries (in this case, Greece) threatened by Communist expansion.
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Dean Acheson | the U.S. secretary of state
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Marshall Plan | designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe.
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satellite states | The political term satellite state designates a country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control of another country.
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policy of containment | keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent further Soviet
aggressive moves
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arms race | both countries built up their armies and weapons
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NATO | Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland signed a treaty with the United States and Canada
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Warsaw Pact | the Soviet Union joined with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania in a formal military alliance
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SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
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CENTO | Central Treaty Organization
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deterrence | This policy held that huge arsenals of nuclear weapons on both sides prevented war
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Nikita Khrushchev | emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955, tried to take advantage of the American concern over missiles to solve the problem of West Berlin.
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Domino theory | The theory that an event in one country will cause similar events in another country
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Heavy industry | the manufacture of machines and equipment for factories and mines
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de-Stalinization | process of eliminating the more ruthless policies of Stalin
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Russian novelist
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Tito | the leader of the Communist resistance movement
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Imre Nagy | the Hungarian leader, declared Hungary a free nation on November 1, 1956, and promised free elections
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Alexander Dubcek | was elected first secretary of the Communist Party
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Charles de Gaulle | Gaulle helped establish a new govern- ment called the Fourth Republic
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welfare state | a state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services and a minimal standard of living
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bloc | a group of nations with a common pur- pose
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real wages | the actual purchasing power of income
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John F. Kennedy | became the youngest elected president in the history of the United States
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Martin Luther King, Jr. | leader of a growing movement for racial equality
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consumer society | a society preoccupied with buying goods
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Simone de Beauvoir | she published her highly influential work, The Second Sex
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