| A | B |
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| satellite nations | This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union. |
| Berlin airlift | This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union. |
| United Nations | Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II. |
| Harry S Truman | He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece. |
| NATO | This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime. |
| Marshall Plan | This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." |
| Cold War | This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II. |
| A Communist leader | Although Mao Zedong won the hearts of the Chinese peasants, he failed to win American support because he |
| weak and corrupt leadership | The failure of Chiang Kai-shek's forces in the Chinese Civil War can largely be blamed on |
| the Chinese Nationalists | Who was forced to retreat to Taiwan (Formosa)? |
| North and South Korea | The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between |
| China | Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists? |
| should be extended into a war against China | General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | The Senate eventually condemned ___ for improper conduct that tended "to bring the Senate into disrepute." |
| Alger Hiss | ___ could only be charged with perjury, not espionage, because too many years had passed since the spying had taken place. |
| Hollywood Ten | The ___ decided not to cooperate with the investigation into whether the American film industry had been influenced by Communists. |
| Ethel & Julius Rosenberg | Claiming to be persecuted for being Jewish and holding radical beliefs, ___ pleaded not guilty to the crime of espionage. |
| HUAC | In 1947, ___ subpoenaed 43 witnesses from the Hollywood film industry to give testimony on whether Communists influenced the American film industry. |
| Eisenhower | He led the nation that developed the first hydrogen bomb. |
| Warsaw Pact | The satellite nations were members of this military alliance. |
| U-2 incident | This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold. |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | This policy was intended to defend the Middle East an attack by any communist country. |
| CIA | This group's covert actions helped to topple governments in Iran and Guatemala. |
| John Foster Dulles | As Secretary of State, he proposed that the United States declare its intention to use massive retaliation against any aggression. |
| brinkmanship | This U.S. policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them. |
| Francis Gary Powers | This U-2 pilot was convicted of espionage after his plane was shot down and he was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory. |
