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| Mao Zedong | Chinese Communist leader who ruled in the north of China after World War II. |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Chinese Nationalist leader who ruled in the south of China after World War II. |
| Taiwan (Formosa) | The location the beaten Nationalists fled to after losing the civil war in China. |
| 38th parallel | An imaginary line that divided Korea at 38 degrees latitude into the north, who surrendered to the Soviets, and the south, who surrendered to the Americans, after World War II. |
| Korean War | The conflict between North Korea, and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953, in which the United States, along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans. |
| HUAC | The House Committee on Un-American Activities--a congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II. |
| Hollywood Ten | Ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood. |
| Blacklist | A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of thier alleged Communist connections. |
| Alger Hiss | A State Department official, accused of being a Soviet Spy by former Communist spy, Whittaker Chambers. |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | Two Jewish American communists accused of delivering the knowledge to build the atomic bomb to the Soviets, and sentenced to death. |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | An unpopular Senator who jumped on the communist scare in order to gain popularity, stating that the goverment was being overrun my communists, giving rise to McCarthyism. |
| McCarthyism | The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s. |
