Beginning of the Cold War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Yalta Conference | Agreements between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union regarding Liberated Europe, the future of Germany, German reparations, and Poland's government |
| Satellite Nations | Eastern European countries not under Soviet control, but had to remain Communist and friendly to the Soviet Union. |
| Iron Curtain | Imaginery line that separated the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West. |
| 38th Parallel | Division between North and South Korea after WWII |
| Perjury | Lying under oath, conviction of Alger Hiss |
| McCarthyism | Senator Joseph McCarthy's tactics of blackening reputations with vague and unfounded charges |
| Sputnik | First artifical satellite to orbit the earth |
| Brinkmanship | Used by Eisenhower, going to the edge of war to force the other side to back down |
| JFK | First Catholic President, assassinated in the city of Dallas |
| Cause of WWII according to the U.S. | The Depression |
| J. Edgar Hoover | urged HUAC to hold public hearings on Communist subersion |
| Result of fear of a nuclear war | Bomb drills in school and fallout shelters |
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