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| happened on 1 May 1960, when a United States spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace. | U-2 Incident |
| an international organization,with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, SECURITY and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. | United Nations |
| a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. | McCarthyism |
| were American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
| a system of expressways covering the 48 contiguous states | Interstates |
| the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers. | Consumerism |
| the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection | Truman Doctrine |
| a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II | National Security Act |
| was the first Secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. | Oveta Culp Hobby |
| a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack | massive retaliation |
| arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War. | Geneva Accords |
| international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal, which long had been controlled by Great Britain. After Nasser took over the canal, Britain And France induced Israel to provoke a conflict with Egypt that would serve as a pretext for an Anglo-French Invasion of Egypt. | Suez Crisis |
| an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines | SEATO |
| site of defeat of FRENCH forces by Viet Minh 1954, bringing to an end the FRENCH rule of Indochina. | Diem Bien Phu |
| evolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956 | Hungarian Revolt |
| military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union | Warsaw Pact |
| U.S. journalist and spy, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, accusing Alger Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former State Dept. official, of being a Communist party member. | Whitaker Chambers |
| an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 to uncover citizens with Nazi ties within the United States. | HUACC |
