| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations (UN) | organization designed to be a forum to prevent war and solve international problems, founded in 1945 |
| satellite nations | countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
| containment | Truman's policy of preventing communist expansion into other countries |
| iron curtain | symbolic name of the border between Western Europe and the Communist bloc |
| Cold War | rivalry between the United States and the USSR that did not erupt into actual war |
| Truman Doctrine | committed the United States to aid free peoples everywhere resisting communism |
| Marshall Plan | economic aid to Europe after WWII; revived the European economy |
| Berlin airlift | Britsh and American effort to resupply Berlin when the Soviets tried to blockade it |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | European and American defensive alliance formed in 1949 |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist military alliance formed to counter NATO |
| Chiang Kai-shek | nationalist leader of China after WWII |
| Mao Zedong | communist revolutionary who took power in China in 1949 |
| Taiwan | the Republic of China (Nationalist China after 1949) |
| 38th parallel | dividing line between North and South Korea |
| Korean War | conflict between N. Korea and China on one side and South Korea and the US on the other |
| Douglas MacArthur | US commander in Korea |
| Seoul | the capital of South Korea |
| Inchon | site of a major amphibious landing by the Americans in Korea, a turning poin in the war |
| House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) | congressional committe that investigated Communist influence in the movie industry |
| Hollywood Ten | witnesses who refused to cooperate with HUAC |
| blacklist | a list of people who were supected by movie executives of having Communist ties |
| Alger Hiss | Communist spy in the State deparment |
| Whitaker Chambers | accuser of Alger Hiss |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | minor Communist activists sentenced to death for treason |
| Joseph McCarthy | Wisconsin Senator famous for aggressively pursuing suspected communists in the US government |
| McCarthyism | unfair tactics of accusing people of disloyalty without evidence to support such claims |
| H-Bomb | thermonuclear weapon |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | president during most of the 1950s |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's staunchly anti-communist secretary of state |
| brinksmanship | the willingness of the United States to go to the edg of all out war |
| Central Intelligence Agency | spy agency of the United States |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | policy that the United States would defend the Middle East from attack by any Communist country |
| Hungarian uprising | revolt of Hungary against Soviet domination |
| Nikita Kruschev | leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin |
| Francis Gary Powers | U-2 pilot shot down over the USSR |
| U-2 incident | international incident caused by the shoot down of Francis Gary Powers |
