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communism
political and economic system in which workers owned the means and instruments of industrial production and governed themselves, appeared to most Americans a conscious repudiation of their own free-enterprise, capitalist economic system and a direct challenge to American power. -
HUAC
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Marshall plan
The rebuilding of Europe. -
containment
the containment of communist people into a contained area where they cant get out. -
Truman Doctrine
providing economic and military aid to Turkey and Greece. Inspired by fears that the war-torn nations were vulnerable to communist takeover, the policy encompassed support for anticommunist efforts around the world. -
korean war
Soviet and the US drove China out of Japan, they divide Korea in to two zones. The division was supposed to be temporary but the cold war tensions grew in 1948 South Korea setup separate governments. -
berlin airlift
June 24th 1948 the soviets blocked roads canals and rail ways linking Berlin to Western Germany -
MacCarthyism
accusations of dislyalty ,subversion and ,ilitary aid to all free countries resulting communism. -
balance of powers
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Soviet Union
Union Soviet shocked the world for the second time, in November it launched Sputnik ll, and had a dog aboard January 1958 US sent its first Satellite -
space race
