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United Nation | 5 main purposes guide this |
UN Security Council | police authority charged with preventing war, military force can be used to check aggression |
UN General Assembly | all members are equally reprented to offer recommendations to settle disputes |
UN Economic and Social Council | study and make recommendations concerning the world'd social, economic and cultural and health problems |
International Court of Justice | answered legal quesitons between quarreling nations |
UN Secretariat | administration |
UN Trusteeship Council | look after the welfare of people living in colonial areas of the world |
Turman Doctrine | created to contain the communists in Greece and Turkey |
Marshall Plan | economic aid policy for rebuilding Europe after WWII |
Sputnik | Russian Satellite |
Israel | created as a Jewish homeland |
Executive Order 9981 | signed by Truman integrating the armed forces |
German sectors | U.S., France, Great Britain, USSR |
Berlin Blockade | communists cut off supply routes to the city |
Berlin Airlift | massive movement of food and supplies via planes |
NATO | atomic shield protected countries allied to the U.S. |
Warsaw Pact | atomic shild protecting the countries allied to the USSR |
Hydrogen Bomb | 1000 times greater than the atomic bomb |
Chinese Revolution | containment of communists in China failed |
Nikita Krushchev | publicly attacked Stalin |
Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba |
Mutual Terror | both sides have enough atomic weapons to destroy the other, keeping the cold war cold |
Iron Curtain | communist countries in Eastern Europe |
Douglas MacCarthur | General during the Korean Conflict who was fired by Truman for insubordination |
Pusan Perimeter | area in Korea where the UN forces were pushed back |
38th Parallel | location where the Korean Conflict began and ended |
Pumpkin Papers | microfilm found in a pumpkin |
Alger Hiss | Secretary General of the UN accused of being a Soviet Spy |
Richard Nixon | bashed communists during the Red Scare |
Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin who accused people in the army, Democratic Party, State Department and entertainment industry of being communist |
Klaus Fuchs | British scientist who admitted giving USSR vital information on the A-bomb |
David Greenglass | implicated the Rosenbergs |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | American communists charged with spying, executed |
President Eisenhower | defended the army during the McCarthy hearings |
Edward R. Murrow | journalist who attacked McCarthy |
NASA | created in response to Sputnik |