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Module 21-23 Flashcards

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Harry S Truman

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33rd President of the United States

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Satellite nation

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Country dominated by the Solviet Union

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Iron Curtain

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The division of Europe between free and Communist countries

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Cold War

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State of histility between the Solviet Union and the US but without military action

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Containment

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Taking measures to prevent the spread of Communist rule to rule other countries

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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Agency created to compile intelligence from the military and state departements and to preform secret operation in forgein countries

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Truman Doctrine

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US policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover

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Marshall Plan

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Progra under which the US gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe

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Berlin Airlift

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

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NATO

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

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Chiang Kai Shek

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Leader of the Nationalist forces in China

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Mao Zedong

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Leader of the Communist forces in China

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Taiwan

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Island off the coast of China

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38th parallel

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Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north lattitude

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Korean War

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War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950

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House Un American Activities Committee

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Committee of the US House of Representatives that investigated people thought to be Communists

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Hollywood Ten

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People called before HUAC who did not cooperate

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blacklist

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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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Alger Hiss

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Former State Department offical

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Ethel and Julius Rosenburg

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Activists in the American Communist party who were executed as spies

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H bomb

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Hydrogen bomb

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Arms race

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An international contest between countreis seeking a military advantage over each other

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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34th Pres of the US

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Massive retaliation

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Stragtegy that deterred the United States and Solviet Union from lauching a nuclear attack

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Mutually assured destruction
Policy that meant that any attack with nuclear force would result in total destrcution of both centuries
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John Foster Dulles
Secretary of State
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Brinkmanship
Willingness to go the edge of all out war
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Warsaw PAct
Military alliance of the Solviet Union and its satelitte nations
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Plicy of the US that it would defend the Midlle East against attack by any Communist country
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Nikita Khrushchev
Solviet leader
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Francis Gary Power
Pilot of an American U2 spy plane
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U2 incident
Drowning of a US spy plane and the capture of it pilot by the Solviet Union in 1960
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John F. Kennedy
35 Pres of US
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Flexibility Response
Policy of using nonuclear weapons to fight a war
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Domino Theroy
Theory that one country falling to Communist influence would quikcly lead to other countries in the same area to fall too
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Lydon B Johnson
36th PRES of the US
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Fidel Castro
Ruler of Cuba
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Berlin Wall
Barrier built to keep East Germans from fleing to wEst Berlin
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Hot line
Direcet phone between the WHite house and the Krelim
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Limities Test Ban Traty
treaty that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere
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Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
Treaty in which nuclear power agreed not to sell or give nuclear weapons to any other counteis
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New Frontier
The name given to Jennedys domestic program
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Mandate
An overwhelming show of support by voters
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Peace Corps
A program that enlisted bolunteers to help in poor countries
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Alliance for progress
A program tha supplied aid to latin America
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Warren Commusions
The body that investigated the assiaination of President kennedy
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Economic Oppurtunity Act
Created numerous antipoverty measures
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Great Society
Name given to Johnson’s domestkc agenda
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Medicare and Medicaid
Health benefits for the elferly and poor
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Immigration Act of 1965
Established new immigration system that allowed more immigration into the US
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Warren Court
The supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren
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Reappointonment
The way in which states redraw their election districts

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