| A | B |
|---|
| arms race | Countries developing more weapons to be most powerful |
| mutually assured destruction | Countries stockpiled weapons to let other countries know they could destroy them |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's secretary of state |
| massive retaliation | threatening to use crushing force |
| brinkmanship | Always being on the brink of war |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Head of the Soviet Union |
| nationalize | Placing the Suez canal under government control |
| Suez crisis | Plot to get the Suez Canal back into Western hands |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | US would use force in Middle East to help countries threatened with communism |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| NASA | National Aeronautices and Space Administration |
| Red Scare | fear of Communism |
| Smith Act | Unlawful to teach the violent overthrow of the US government |
| HUAC | House UnAmerican Activities Committee |
| Hollywood Ten | Left wing people refused to answer HUAC questions |
| blacklist | not hiring of suspected Communist supporters |
| Alger Hiss | Accused of stealing government documents |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Accused of passing on atomic secrets |
| Joseph R McCarthy | Politician who attacked many Americans as being Communist |
| McCarthyism | Extreme charges of people being Communist |
