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The leader of the communist party in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The agency that is responsible for aeronautic studies and aerospace research.
What is NASA?
The act of containing communism.
What is containment?
A period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is the Cold War?
The invisible border that separated the Soviets from Western Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
He led United Nations forces in the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
The agency that gathers and analyzes national security information from around the world.
What is the CIA?
It provided support for nations threatened by Soviet invasion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The war in which North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
Countries under Soviet control with their "own" governments.
What are satellite states?
The leader of the nationalist party in China.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
A military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
What is NATO?
It provided $13 million for Western European countries in need of aid.
What is the Marshall Plan?
For a year, supplies were transported to Western Berlin by air.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
It formed that border between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
He was an advocate for taking strong action against communism.
Who is John Foster Dulles?
An alliance between the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; made to counter N.A.T.O.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
It provided support for countries threatened by communism.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
A poor, Jewish couple were tried and put to death for being spies.
What are the Rosenberg Trials?
If added to this, people were harassed, fired from their jobs, and denied jobs.
What is the Blacklist?
He came to power after Stalin's death.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The organization for the collective defense of South East Asia.
What is SEATO?
He was an advocate of containment.
Who is George F. Kennan?
The event that occurred after Gamal Abdel Nasser opened the canal to everyone.
What is the Suez Crisis?
A practice in which a country reaches a point just before total conflict to gain an advantage.
What is brinkmanship?