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Cold War
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11th Grade
05/01/2011

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Eisenhower Doctrine
Definition
a U.S. commitment to defend the MIddle East agains attack by any communist country, announced by Presiden Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957
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H-bomb
Definition
the hydrogen bomb -- a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites
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containment
Definition
the blocking of another nation's attempt to spread its influence -- especiall the efforts of the US to block the spreaod of Soviet influence the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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conglomerate
Definition
a major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated business
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termination policy
Definition
the U.S. government's plan announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discounting the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands
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bracero
Definition
a Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during World War II
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John Foster Dulles
Definition
Eisenhower's secretary of State who was anti-communist. Cold war was a moral crusade against Communism for him
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brinkmanship
Definition
the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any agression
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Ruled in Southern and Eastern China, relied heavilly on aid from U.S., nationalist, struggled with inflation and failing economy
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satellite nation
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a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation
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Mao Zedong 
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Ruled in Northern China, communist, financial aid from Soviet Union
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Dixiecrat
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one of the Southern Delegates who, to protest president Truman's civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party
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Fair Deal
Definition
Truman's economic program -- an extension of FDR's New Deal -- which included measures to increase minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families
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Jonas Salk
Definition
Developed a vaccine for the crippling desease poliomyeletis -- polio
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Nikita Krushchev
Definition
He believed that Communism could take over the world but it would triumph peacefully. Believed in peaceful coexsitence
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