Vocabulary Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 1. satellite state | small nation under control of a more superior nation |
| 2. Cold War | rivalry of the US and SU, 46-year struggle |
| 3. iron curtain | term used by Churchill to represent the division of the Soviet satellite and western Europe |
| 4. Truman Doctrine | Truman's promise to help nations against communist movements |
| 5. containment | policy to keep communists contained |
| 6. Marshall Plan | foreign policy to offer aid to Western European countries |
| 7. Berlin Airlift | when US and British planes flew supplies into berlin during a Soviet blockade |
| 8. NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military alliance to counter Soviet expansion |
| 9. Warsaw Pact | military alliance between Soviet Union and satellite states |
| 10. 38th Parallel | dividing line of the Koreas |
| 11. Limited War | war fought to achieve specific goals |
| 12. SEATO | defense alliance used to prevent spread of communism |
| 13. arms race | contest when nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
| 14. mutually assured destruction | US and SU hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy each other |
| 15. massive retaliation | policy that threatened to use massive force in response to aggression |
| 16. brinkmanship | belief that going to war was the only solution to prevent communism |
| 17. nationalized | to place a resource under government control |
| 18. Suez Crisis | attempt of France and Brittan to size the Suez Canal |
| 19. Eisenhower Doctrine | policy from president Eisenhower that let US use force against any nation threatened by communism |
| 20. CIA | Central Intelligence Agency, intelligence gathering organization |
| 21.NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Admin. control US in space |
| 22. Red Scare | fear of communism |
| 23. Smith Act | law that made to unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the US government |
| 24. HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee, committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the US |
| 25. Hollywood Ten | group of Hollywood people who refused to talk to HUAC about communism |
| 26. blacklist | list of people who were not hired because of communist ties |
| 27. McCarthysim | negative catchword for extreme reckless charges of disloyalty |
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