1. Chapter 18
Cold War Conflicts

2. Cold War
The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the U.S. and Soviet Union after World War II.
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3. Brinkmanship
The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.
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4. Blacklist
A list of 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections.
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5. Berlin Airlift
A 327-day operation in which the U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
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6. Eisenhower Doctrine
A U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country.
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7. Iron Curtain
A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe.
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8. Satellite Nation
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
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9. Containment
The blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence.
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10. Marshall Plan
A program proposed in which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.
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11. Truman Doctrine
A U.S. policy which provided economic and military aid to free nations threatened by external or internal opponents.
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12. Warsaw Pact
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.
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13. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States and Canada.
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14. Subjugation
Bringing under control.
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15. Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Nationalist leader.
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16. Mao Zedong
Leader of Communist China.
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17. Taiwan
An active trading partner with the United States. But no country who wants diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China can have diplomatic relations with this country.
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18. 38th Parallel
Divides North and South Korea.
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19. Amphibious
Capable of traveling both on land and water.
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20. Conspirator
A person who takes part in secretly planning something unlawful.
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21. Demilitarize
To ban military forces in an area or region.
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