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11th Grade
11/09/2011

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Satellite nation
Definition
a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
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Containment
Definition
blocking of another nation that is trying to spread it's influence to other places.
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Cold War
Definition
the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that develpoed between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII.
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Truman Doctrine
Definition
A US policy announced by Harry Truman to provide economic and military aid to free nations treatened by internal ans external opponets.
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Marshall Plan
Definition
The US supplied ecominc aid to European nations to help them rebulid after WWII.
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Berlin Airlift
Definition
a 327-day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies to West Berlin after the soviets blockaded the country.
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
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Mao Zedong
Definition
Led China's communist revolution following decades of civil war.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Definition
President of the Republic of China/
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38th parallel
Definition
The border between north and south Korea.
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Korean War
Definition

conflict between North and South Korea in which the US and other UN countries fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North
Koreans.

 

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HUAC
Definition
House Un-American Activities Committee; a congressional commettie that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following WWII.
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Blacklist
Definition
A list of over 500 actors, writters, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections.
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Rosenberg
Definition
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who have been accused to have passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets. Although evidence weren't clear about them, they were still found guilty and sentenced to death.
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Mc Carthism
Definition
The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Joseph McCarthy and others on people subspected of being communist.
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H. Bomb
Definition
Hydrogen Bomb; a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
Promised to inforce the anticommunist foreign policy.
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Brinkmanship
Definition
The practice of threating a enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.
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CIA
Definition
Central Intelligence Agency; A US agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and it's Eastern European Sateilites.
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Khrushchev
Definition
Soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin.
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Definition
A US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Eisenhower.
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U2 Incident
Definition
When the Planes were shot down.
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G.I Bill of Rights
Definition
Provided houses and education to the military when they returned home. 
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Harry Truman
Definition
33rd president that faced economic troubles including severe shortages and numerous strikes. Removed many people from office that was considered communist. 
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Dixiecrat
Definition
One of the Southern delegates who, to protest President Truman's civil rights policy, walked out of the 1984 Democratic national convention and formed the states' rights democratic party.
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Fair Deal
Definition

 

President Harry Truman's econimic program. (increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families. 

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Franchise
Definition
A business that has bought the right to use a parnets companies name and methods. 
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Baby Boom
Definition
Increase in the U.S. birthrate following WWII.
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Jonas Salk
Definition
Made the Polio Vaccine.
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Consumerism
Definition
a preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. 
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FCC
Definition
Agency that regulates U.S. communications industries.
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Beat movement
Definition
A social and artistic movement stressing unrestrained literay self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture.
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Beatnik
Definition
nonconformistsIt started as a literary movement centered around the novels of Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg.
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J.F. Kennedy
Definition
A president that supported Harry Truman.
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Fidel Castro
Definition
Prime minister of Cuba.
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Berlin Wall
Definition
Built to keep the communist in the communist side, and the nons aren't about to come in or get out. 
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Test Ban Treaty
Definition
 Prohibits nuclear weapon test explosions and any other nuclear explosions
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New Frontier
Definition
Kenedy's legislative program that provided medical care for the elderly, rebuild urban areas, aid education, boister the nation offense, increase international aid, and to expand the space program. 
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Peace Corps
Definition
A agency established to provide voluteer assistance to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 
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Alliance for Progress
Definition
Program that provided economic and techinal assistance to Latin America Countries. 
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Warren Commission
Definition
Group that invesigated the assissination of Kennedy and concluded that Lee Oswald was alone responsible for it. 
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Definition
Supported Roosevelt and He wanted “an all-out war”.
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Great Society
Definition
Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of the life in the U.S.
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Medicare
Definition
Provides hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 and over. 
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Medicaid
Definition
Provides Health insurance for people on welfare.
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Reapportionment
Definition
the re-drawing of election districts to reflect changes in population. 
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Martin Luther King
Definition
Preacher that wanted to help stop rasism and spearations. "I have a dream"
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Rosa Parks
Definition
Told a white person no, that she wasn't getting up for them, and she got arrested for it. 
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SCLC
Definition
Organization fomed by M.L. King and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means. 
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SNCC
Definition
Sit-ins.
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Freedom rider
Definition
One of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the 1960s to challenge segragation. 
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1964 Civil Rights Act
Definition
A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces. 
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Voting Rights Act
Definition
A law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy test and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level. 
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Malcom X
Definition
Stop segragation using violence. 
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Nation of Islam
Definition
A religious group that wanted to promote black separation and the Islamic religion
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