History Chapter 18 CPA
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 CIA | American spy organization; Central Intelligence Agency |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | this would defend the Middle east against the spread of communism |
| U-2 Incident | Drowning of a U.S.spy plane and the capture of it's pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960 |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the soviet union and it satellite nations |
| Eisenhower | 34th president of the United States; served as allied commander in WW2 |
| Truman | 33rd president of the United States; President during the Korean War; fired General McArthur |
| Cold War | state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action. |
| Marshall Plan | Program under which the United States gave economic aid to rebuild postwar western Europe |
| NATO | Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European Nations |
| UN | Peace keeping body of Nations |
| Berlin Airlift | Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948 |
| Satellite Nation | country dominated by the soviet union |
| Sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. |
| McCarthyism | Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the communist forces in china |
| Chinese nationalists | Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of the nationalist forces. The US supported them because they were anti communists. |
| HUAC | purpose was too look for communists both inside and outside the government ; House Committee on Un-American Activities |
| Berlin Blockade | A Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. |
| Truman Doctrine | US policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a communist takeover |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's Sec. of State; harsh anti-Communist; called for more radical measures to roll back communism where it had already spread |
| Brinksmanship | willingness to go to the edge , or brink, of war |
| containment | policy to keep communism form expanding |
| Francis Gary Powers | pilot of an american U-2 spy plane |
| Nikita Krushchev | soviet leader |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party (a.k.a Napoleon.) |
| West | free side of Berlin |
| East | communist side of Berlin |
| North | Communist part of Korea |
| South | Free part of Korea |
| 1910 | the year Korea was divided |
| 38th | what parallel is Korea divided on? |
| Hollywood Ten | people called before the HUAC who did not cooperate |
| blacklist | list of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with the HUAC |
| Rosenburgs | Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies |
| Joseph McCarthy | Republican Senator who claimed communists were taking over the federal government |
| North attacked South | how was the Korean War started? |
| Truman | who was president when the Korean war started? |
| McArthur | What general led troops in Korea? |
| Pushed the north back | What did the attack on Inchon accomplish? |
| US called a cease-fire | How did the Korean war end? |
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