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Cold War Conflicts - Chapter 26 Flashcards

To understand the international and domestic tensions resulting from the Cold War.

1
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Peacekeeping body of nations

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United Nations (UN)

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Country dominated by the Soviet Union

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Satellite Nation

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Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations

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Containment

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The division of Europe between free and communist countries

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Iron curtain

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State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action

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Cold War

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U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover

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Truman Doctrine

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Program under which the United States gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe

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Marshall Plan

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Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948

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Berlin Airlift

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Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Leader of the Nationalist forces in China

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Chiang Kai-shek

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Leader of the Communist forces in China

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Mao Zedong

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Island off the coast of China

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Taiwan

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Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude

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38th Parallel

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War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950

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Korean War

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House Committee on Un-American Activities

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HUAC

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People called before HUAC who did not cooperate

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Hollywood Ten

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List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC

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Former State Department official

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Alger Hiss

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Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies

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Ethel and Julius

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Republican Senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government

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Joseph McCarthy

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Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence

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McCarthyism

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Hydrogen bomb

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President of the United States

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Secretary of state

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John Foster Dulles

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Willingness to go to the edge, or brink, of war

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Brinkmanship

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Intelligence-gathering, or spy, agency of the United States

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Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations

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Warsaw Pact

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Policy of the United States that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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Soviet leader

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Nikita Khruschev

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Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane

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Francis Gary Powers

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Downing of a U.S. spy plane and the capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960

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U-2 Incident

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