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- Korean War
- a conflict between N&S Korea; from 50 to 53, in whch the US, along with UN countries, fought on the side of the Southern Koreans and China fought on the side of the North{controversy over Communism [N] and Democracy [S]}
- Alger Hiss
- accused by Whittader Chamber of spying for SAu on US at Yalta Congerence, put in jail for lying under oath
- Mao Zedong
- Communistic CHinese leader, supported by SU, overthrows Chaing
- CIA
- a US agency created to gather secret information about forgein government(formed after WWII, replaces USSS)
- Chiang Kai-sheck
- the leasder of Chinese nationalist gov. supported by US. Later becomes head of Taiwan
- NATO
- a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European countries, hte US, and Canada {1st US non-wartime alliance; 1st US head was Eisenhower}
- Hollywood 10
- ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood. (got blacklisted)
- H-bomb
- a thermonuclear weapon much mroe pwerful than the atomic bomb
- Warsaw Pact
- a military alliance formed in 1955 by the SOviet Union and its Eastern Euorpean Alliances(response to NATO)
- Joseph McCarthy
- Commie hunter, Wisconson Senator with dream of presidency
- U-2 incident
- the downing of a US spy plance and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
- Taiwan
- once overthrown, Chiang and remnants flee to here nad Chaing becomes leader
- Ethel and Julia Rosenberg
- minor activists in American Communist Party, Manhatten Prodject Scientist who was alleged of giving nuclear bomb secrets to SU
- blacklist
- a list of 500 actors, writers; producers; and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood flims b/c of the alleged Communist connections
- brinkermanship
- the practice of threatening an emeny with massice military retaliation for any aggression
- HUAC
- a congressional Committee that investigated Commmunist influence inside and outside the US gov. after WWII
- John Foster Dulles
- Eisenhower's sec of state, extreme anti-Comie; his idea of brinkmanship
- Eisenhower
- Pres. of US during H-bomb and arms race w/ SU
- Truman Doctrine
- a US policy, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
- McCarthyism
- the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on ppl suspected of being Communists in teh early 50s
- containment
- the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence-especially the efforts of the US to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 40s and early 50s. {key of 40-80 forgein policy}
- Berlin airlift
- a 327-day operatoin in which US and British planes flew food and suppliesinto West Berlin after the Societs blockaded the city in 1948.
- cold war
- the state of hostility, without direect military conflict, that develped between the US and SU after WWII
- satellite nation
- a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
- Frances Gary Powers
- U-2 spy plane piolet, shot down by Soviets; this incident prevents peace talks
- UN
- an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, securit, and economic development
- 38th Parallel
- lattitude line separating North and South Korea
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- a US commmitiment to defencd the Middle East against attack by any communist Country, announced by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- iron curtain
- a phrase used by CHurchilll in 1946 to descrive an imaginary line that separated Communist Countries on the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe.
- Marshall Plan
- the program, proposed by Sec of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild aftere WWII
- Nikita Khrushchev
- ruler of SU after Stalin's death in 1935, thought Communism could peacefully take over the world