Unit 7 Vocabulary

Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were charged and executed for passing atomic secrets to Russia

Group highlighted by writers and artists who stressed spontaneity and spirituality instead of apathy and conformity.

Policy of using the threat of nuclear war in order to protect national interests.

US gave money to help European economies after World War II to prevent spread of communism

Winston Churchill's term for the extension of Communist control over EasternEurope.

United States would militarily support nations that were being threatened by communism

Developed during Cold War to deter against USSR

a system of government where all property is public & people are given things by the government according to their need

The "witch hunt" for communists in the United States government during the 1950s.

response to blockade of allied sections of Berlin, brought food and medical supplies

Limited the president to two terms or ten years.

committee that investigated Communist influence in the United States in the 1940's and 1950's.

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.

First artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957