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| Cold War | A conflict between U.S. and Soviet Union in which neither nation directly because of the threat of global Nuclear war,  |
| United Nations | An organization created to provide a global forum to promote world peace and defend human rights,  |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | A document published by the United Nations in 1948 stating that all people had certain basic rights including life, liberty, equality, justice and self-determination. Elenore Roosevelt spear headed the drafting of this document |
| Mao Zedong | led communist party in China. Gained the support of peasants. Set up the People’s Republic of China in 1949.,  |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Led Chinese Nationalists against Mao’s communists. Eventually, Nationalists fled to Taiwan,  |
| Taiwan (Formosa) | Haven for Chinese Nationalists,  |
| 38th parallel | Separated Korea after WWII. North of the parallel was led by Kim Il Sung and controlled by Communists. South of the parallel was led by Syngman Rhee (pictured below),  |
| Korean War | North Korean forces, under Kim Il Sung, swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea. Stalemate occurred and Soviet Union recommended a cease fire.,  |
| General Douglas MacArthur | Led a combined force of American and United Nations,  |
| HUAC | The House Un-American Activities Committee, set up in 1938 investigated Communist influence in the movie industry in 1940’s and 1950’s.,  |
| Blacklist | Hollywood executives created a list of people whom they condemned for having a Communist background. |
| Senator Joe McCarthy | Republican Senator from Wisconsin who made unsupported accusations against government officials of being Communist.,  |
| McCarthyism | Attacks on suspected Communists during the 1950’s became known as McCarthyism. Also referred to as the Second Red Scare and comparedto the Salem Witchcraft trials in Colonial Massachusetts.,  |
| Brinkmanship | The willingness of the U.S. under Eisenhower to go to the edge of all-out war,  |
| Kuomintang (KMT) | One of the two parties involved in the Chinese civil war. It is the nationalist party that was lead by Chiang Kai-shek in opposition of Mao Tsa Tong's communist party. Still the ruling party in Taiwan., |
| Cultural Revolution | In the People’s Republic of China was a period of widespread social and political upheaval; the nation-wide chaos and economic disarray engulfed much of Chinese society between 1966 and 1976. It was famous for it's Little Red book, a book of communist indoctrination,  |
| PRC | People's Republic of China,  |
| ROC | Republic of China/Taiwan, |
| Korean War | June 25, 1950 – July 1953. North Korean forces swept across the 38th,  |
| Algier Hiss | A former communist spy Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union, never convicted of spying but convicted of purjury,  |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | Executed for spying and giving information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.,  |
