Cold War

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  1. 3. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
  2. 5. The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union
  3. 8. - a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
  4. 11. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers.
  5. 12. was created in 1938 to investigate allegedHUAC disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations
  6. 14. 38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea.
  7. 15. A vast nation that stretches from eastern Europe across the Eurasian land mass
  8. 16. - a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
  9. 17. South Korea, an East Asian nation on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, shares one of the world’s most heavily militarized borders with North Korea.
  10. 19. American politician who served in the US Senate (1947–57), representing Wisconsin, and who lent his name to the term McCarthyism.
  11. 21. Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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  1. 1. a nation consisting of 50 states, all but one (Hawaii) in North America.
  2. 2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  3. 4. A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military
  4. 6. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
  5. 7. Rio Roosevelt, a river flowing north from western Brazil to the Madeira River
  6. 9. The Marshall Plan generated a resurgence of European industrialization and brought extensive investment into the region.
  7. 10. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
  8. 13. a fine white or translucent vitrified ceramic material.
  9. 18. -President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat.
  10. 20. war- a state of political hostility