World history cold war

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United Nations

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an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security

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Cold war

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A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

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Satellite Nation

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a state dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation

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Containment

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American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

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Iron Curtain

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a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region, coined by Winston Churchill.

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Truman Doctrine

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Provided economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology (Basically helping NON-communists that were threatened by communism) applied to Turkey and Greece.

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Alger Hiss

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American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

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Ethel and Julius rosenburg

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American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

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Joseph McCarthy

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served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

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McCarthyism

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making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means “the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism.”

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U2 incident

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during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace

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The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

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was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 to uncover citizens with Nazi ties within the United States.

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Mao Zedong

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Former Chairman of Chinese Communist Party

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Nikita Khrushchev

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led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida

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Berlin airlift

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The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was

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NATO

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NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states

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Korean War

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Korean War definition. A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

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Warsaw Pact

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A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO,

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Marshall plan

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Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War