| A | B |
|---|
| Cold War | a period of confrontation and competition between the United STates and the Soviet Union |
| Potsdam | location of conference between the United States and the Soviet Union regarding Germany |
| satellite nations | the Communists countries of Eastern Europe that had to remain friendly to the Soviet Union |
| iron curtain | the separation of the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the WEst |
| George Keenan | American diplomat who explained Soviet goals |
| containment | the policy of keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions |
| MArshall Plan | an economic recovery plan in which the United STates provided aid to European nations to rebuild their economies |
| NATO | a military alliance made up of the United STates, Canada, and several WEstern European nations |
| limited war | a war fought to achieve a limited objective such as containing communism |
| subversion | an effort to secretly weaken a society and overthrow its government |
| loyalty review program | a screening process of federal employees set up by President Truman in 1947 |
| Alger Hiss | a government official accused of being a Communist spy |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| McCarran Act | a law passed by Congress that required Communist organizations to provide the government with their records |
| McCarthyism | Senator McCarthy's method of destroying reputations with weak evidence and unfounded charges of Communist activity |
| censure | formal disapproval |
| fallout | the radiation left over after a nuclear blast |
| fallout shelter | shelter built to protect against fallout |
| massive retaliation | the policy of threatening Communist states with nuclear war if the state tried to take territory by force |
| Sputnik | developed by the Soviet Union, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth |
| brinkmanship | the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down |
| covert | hidden |
| Central Intelligence Agency | an agency that conducted covert operations |
| developing nation | nation with a primarily agricultural economy |
| military-industrial complex | the relationship between the military establishment and the defense industry |
