PPHS U.S. History Ch. 15 Review

The Truman Doctrine is a U.S. pledge to fight communism anywhere in the world

International organization created in 1949 for purpose of collective security

This country drove Korean troops back across the 38th parallel upon joining the fight

the articles or physical resources prepared or furnished for a specific task

The result of the Long Telegram was...

not openly shown or engaged in

a nation whose economy is mostly agricultural

Truman created a government screening process to test the loyalty of gov. employees

to bring others to believe in, or consent to,  a course of action

Nationwide panic that communists would take over the U.S. Government

Senator Joe McCarthy held this in his hand during a speech and created a panic

Egyptians took control of Suez Canal to pay for a dam on the Nile River.

policy or process of preventing the expansion of a hostile power

to operate or arrange manually to achieve a desired effect

radioactive particles dispersed by a nuclear explosion

Who wanted the German's to pay reparations again just like in WWI?

war fought with only a few resources to achieve a specific goal

Support for Joe McCarthy grew as America watched him bully army officials during investigation

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, U.S. defense treaty with 5 nations (1954)

to express indirectly

Soviet resort on Black Sea where FDR met Stalin & Churchill to plan for post war

policy of threatening massive response to attempted Communist takeovers of other nations

a struggle over political differences carried on with methods...short of actual war

What did Stalin agree to do in order to get the U.S. to recognize the new Polish Gov.t?

City near Berlin where Truman met Stalin in 1945 to work a deal on Germany

Helping ALL of Western Europe's economies improve was the purpose of the Marshall Plan

political and military barrier that isolated Soviet Controlled Europe from the West

Marshall Plan was a plan to give American aid to Japan after WWII

called the Internal Security Act regulating organizations & limiting U.S. Communists rights

to express formal disapproval of an action

lying under oath

nations politically and economically dominated by a more powerful country

Oct. 1957, the first artificial satellite sent into space, launched by the Soviets

important diplomat w/FDR who was at Yalta Conference, later named as a communist spy

U.S. Intelligence Agency that gathers and coordinates intelligence & counterintelligence

A LOT of territory was won at the end of the Korean War

to set free

American diplomat in Moscow, who attempted to explain Soviet behavior to Americans

a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within

Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were charged and executed for passing atomic secrets to ...

5,540 message explaining George Kennan's views of the Soviets

tactics for damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges on a witch hunt for disloyalty

something said or done as a reaction

relating to the beginning

the state of not being confident or sure

This was the Soviet response to merging allied forces...

informal relationship believed to exist between military and defense industry