| A | B |
|---|
| organization founded to promote peace | United Nations |
| Eastern European nations controlled by the Soviet Union | Satellite Nation |
| developed by George F. Kennan; goal was to keep communism contained within existing borders | Containment |
| boarder between Soviet controlled eastern Europe and western Europe; where Soviets installed communist governments | Iron Curtain |
| 46 year world wide rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union; two sides never faced each other directly in a "hot" military conflict | Cold War |
| promise to aid nations struggling against communist movements; set a new course for American Foreign Policy | Truman Doctrine |
| $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe | Marshall Plan |
| a massive airlift of food, fuel, medical supplies, clothing, toys- everything the residents fo West Berlin needed was flown into the city | Berlin Airlift |
| formed 1949; provided for a military alliance to counter Soviet expansion | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| dividing line between North and South Korea | 38th parallel |
| began on June 25,1950; North Invades South Korea | Korean War |
| a group of left-wing writers, directors and producers who refused to answer questions, asserting 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination | Hollywood Ten |
| a list of entertainment figures who shoudl not be hired because of their suspected communist ties | Blacklist |
| executed after conviction for conspiring to pass secret information about nuclear science to Soviet agents | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
| Senator from Wisconsin, gave speech about the State Department being infested with communist agents | Joseph McCarthy |
| a cathword for extreme, reckless charges onto people accusing them of being a communist | McCarthyism |
| going to the brink of war could the U.S. protect its allies, discourage communist aggression and prevent war | Brinkmanship |
| created in 1947 as an intelligence-gathering organization | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Soviet Union and its satellite states formed a military alliance | Warsaw Pact |
| Jan. 1957; the U.S. would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| came to power after Stalin's death; condemned the excesses of the Stalin regime and inched toward a more peaceful relations with the democratic west | Nikita Khrushche |
| occurred May 1,1960; a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union | U-2 Incident |
| a policy designed by Truman, fought to achieve only specific goals | Limited War |
| placing under government control | Nationalize |
| occurred when Britain, France, & Israel seized control of the Suez Canal | Suez Crisis |
| created to coordinate the space-related efforts of American scientists and the military | NASA |
| fear that communists outside and inside America were working to destroy American life | Red Scare |
