Cold war

4. plan - American initiative to aid Western Europe
6. - diplomatic art of going to the brink of war without actually getting to war
8. pact - Treaty of Friendship
9. - North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a treaty in which each country pledged to defend other members should anyone be attacked, it was essentially an alliance including the U.S., Canada, Iceland, France, Britain, and other Western European countries
12. - first artificial satellite, launched by USSR in 1957
13. War - 1950-1953, North Korea invades South Korea, ends with armistice that divided the country near the 38th parallel

1. MacArthur - commander of U.S. forces in Korea, fired by President Truman for publicly disagreeing with Truman over war strategy
2. I - first American satellite, launched in 1958
3. McCarthy - U.S. Senator who claimed to have a list of communists working at the State Department, people stopped believing him during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings when they saw his bullying tactics and lack of evidence
4. - tactic of spreading fear and making baseless charges , despite his lack of evidence, many people easily believed McCarthy because of their fears, he caused many people to lose their jobs and reputations
5. - U.S. foreign policy which focused on stopping the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets
7. Curtain - a term coined by Churchill referring to the sharp divide between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe
10. truman - 33rd president
11. Parallel - the dividing line between North and South Korea first created during occupation and rebuilding after WWII, the Soviets rebuilt the north and the U.S. rebuilt the south