| A | B |
|---|
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Former general, elected president in 1952 |
| U-2 incident | Event in 1960 in whihc the Soviets shot down a US spy plane over the Sovie Union |
| Sputnik | The world's first artificial satellite; launched by the USSR in 1957. |
| NASA | agency estiblished by Congress in 1958 to conduct space research |
| John Foster Dulles | Secretary of State under Eisenhower |
| New Look | foreign policy developed by John Foster Dulles to "roll back" communism from certain areas |
| massive retaliation | strategy of threatening to use nuclear weapons in order to stop communist aggression |
| brinkmanship | Eisenhower administration's policy of being willing to go to the very edge or brink of war to oppose communist expansion. |
| covert operations | directing policy in another country using secret missions |
| Central Intelligence Agency | an organization established by the federal government in 1947 to conduct covert operations |
| Mohammad Mosaddeq | Iran's democratically elected prime minister |
| Shah | king of Iran |
| Arbenz | In March 1951, this man assumed the presidency after Guatemala's second-ever universal-suffrage election, marking the first peaceful transition of power in Guatemala's history |
| United Fruit Company | became the largest landowner in Guatemala |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964 |
| Suez Crisis | International crisis that began in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded the Suez Canal region in Egypt |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | Promise of US aid to any Middle Eastern nation fighting communist aggression |
| hydrogen bomb | When this was tested, it completely destroyed a small island in the West Pacific. |
