Term
|
Definition
| policy of giving in to a competitor's demands in order to preserve the peace |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| World War II policy requiring nations at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods and to be responsible for transporting the goods from the United States |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1941 law that authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the date that the Japanese made a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| code name for the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a military strategy used during WWII that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| distribution of goods to consumers in a fixed amount |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Japanese city that had an atomic bomb dropped on it on August 6, 1945 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Japanese city that had an atomic bomb dropped on it on August 9, 1945 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| official ideology of the Soviet Union, characterized there by complete government ownership of land and property, single party control of the government, the lack of individual rights, and the call for worldwide revolution |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Communist and non-Communist life |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Harry Truman's 1947 speech before a joint session of Congress, calling the United States to take a leadership role in the world, and declaring that the United States would support nations threatened by communism |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| program of American economic assistance to Western Europe, announced in 1947 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| moving supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948-1949 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| military alliance between the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe, formed in 1955 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a country dominated politically and economically by another nation, especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| House Un-American Activities Committee, established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty in the United States |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| term used to describe McCarthy's anti-Communist smear tactics |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| latitudinal line that divided North and South Korea at approximately the midpoint of the peninsula |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a 1954 international conference in which Vietnam was divided into two nations |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| belief that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will likewise fall |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1968 attack by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces throughout South Vietnam |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| President Nixon's policy of replacing American military forces with those of South Vietnam |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1973 law limiting a President's ability to involve the U.S. in foreign conflicts without receiving a formal declaration of war from Congress |
|
|
