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| a country controlled politically and economically by another nation; especially by the Soviet Union in the Cold War |
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| Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Communist and non-Communist life |
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| The competition that began after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union |
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| American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world |
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| Harry Truman's speech in 1947 before Congress, calling for the United States to take a leadership role in the world, and declaring that the United States would support nations threatened by communism |
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| Program of American economic aassistance to Western Europe, announced in 1947 |
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| Moving supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948-49 |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| A 1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved |
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| The principal of mutual military assistance among nations |
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| A military treaty, which bound European countries influenced by the Soviet Union to come to the aid of the others, should any one of them be the victim of foreign aggression; in response to NATO |
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| Established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty in the United States |
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| A list that circulated among employers, beginning in 1947, containing the names of persons who should not be hired |
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| Passed by Congress in 1952, this law reaffirmed the quota system that been established for each country in 1924 |
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| A group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood |
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| Latitudinal line that divided North and South Korea at approximately the midpoint of the peninsula |
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| Conflict over the future of the Korean peninsula, fought between 1950 and 1953 and ending in a stalemate |
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| Military-Industrial Complex |
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| The military establishment as it developed links to the corporate and scientific communities, employing 3.5 million Americans by 1960 |
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| Term used to describe McCarthy's anti-Communist smear tactics |
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| The struggle to gain weapons' superiority |
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| The policy of making the military power of the United States and its allies so strong that no enemy would attack for fear of retaliation |
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| A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests |
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| Intercontinental ballistic missiles |
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| The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviets in 1957 |
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| A 1960 incident in which the Soviet military used a missile to shoot down an American U-2 spy plane over Soviet territory |
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