| A | B |
|---|
| satelite nation | country dominated by the Soviet Union |
| containment | effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations |
| Cold War | state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military actions |
| Truman Doctrine | US policy of sending aid to an nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover |
| Marshall Plan | Program under which the US gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Euorpe |
| Berlin Airlift | Resupply of West Berlin by US and British planes during the Soviet blockade of 1948 |
| NATO | Defensive military alliance of the US, Canada and ten European nations |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the Communist forces in China |
| Taiwan (Formosa) | island off the coast of China |
| 38th parallel | imaginary line that divides Korea |
| Korean War | war begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 |
| HUAC | House committee on Un-American Activities |
| Hollywood Ten | People called before HUAwho did not cooperate |
| blacklist | list of people in Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs ecause they did not cooperate with HUAC |
| Alger Hiss | former state department official |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | activists in the Am. communist party who were executed as spies |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | Republican who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government |
| McCarthyism | term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence |
| H bomb | hydrogen bomb |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | President of the US |
| CIA | Intelligence-gathering or spy agency of the United STates |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soveit Union and its satelite nations |
| Nikita Khruschev | Soviet Leader |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | Policy of the US that it woudl defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country |
| Francis Gary Powers | piot of American U2 Spy plane |
| U-2 incident | Downing of a US spy plane and the aputre of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960 |
| air raid drills | practice of what to do durign a bombing attack |
| demilitarized zone | an area where military forces are not allowed |
| clemency | mercy, reduction of a severe sentence given by a court |
| fallout shelters | Underground living ares that give protection from the explosion and radiation of a nuclear attack |
| infiltration | process of entering gradually or secretly, in order to gain control |
| insubordination | act of disobeying authority |
| Sputnik I | first artificial satelite to orbit the Earth (built by the Soviets) |
| stalemate | situation inwhich further action is blocked, a deadlock |
| offensive | attacking |
| isolationism | US foreign policy that ended when US joined NATO |
| JIang Jieshi | led Nationalist forces in China |
| 38th parallel | division between N. & S. Korea before and after the Korean war |
| u2 | US high altitude reconaissance plane |
| ICBM | inter continental balllistic missile |
| Suez Canal | problems occurred here when Egypt allied herself with USSR |
| blacklist | consequence given to those who were suspected as communist sympathizers ( like Gordon Kahn) |
