| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations | Peacekeeping body of nations |
| satellite nation | Country dominated by the Soviet Union |
| containment | Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations |
| iron curtain | The division of Europe between free and communist countries |
| Cold War | State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action |
| Truman Doctrine | US policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover |
| Marshall Plan | Program under which the US gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe |
| Berlin Airlift | Resupply of West Berlin by US and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948 |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Defensive military alliance the United States, Canada, and ten European nations |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Leader of the Nationalist forces in China |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of the Communist forces in China |
| Taiwan | Island off the coast of China |
| 38th parallel | Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude |
| Korean War | War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 |
| HUAC | House Committee on Un-American Activities |
| Hollywood Ten | People called before HUAC who did not cooperate |
| blacklist | List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC |
| Alger Hiss | Former State Department official |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies |
| Joseph McCarthy | Republican Senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government |
| McCarthyism | Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence |
| H-bomb | Hydrogen bomb |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States |
| John Foster Dulles | Secretary of state |
| brinkmanship | Willingness to go to the edge, or brink, or war |
| CIA | Intelligence-gathering, or spy, agency of the United States government |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | Policy of the US that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country |
| Nikita Khruschev | Soviet leader |
| Francis Gary Powers | Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane |
| U-2 incident | Downing of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet union in 1960 |
