Cold War Vocabulary

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  1. 4. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states, especially the United States and Europe, and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact
  2. 5. a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976
  3. 10. A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin had cut off its supply routes
  4. 12. a war in which the weapons used, the nations or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way, in particular one in which the use of nuclear weapons is avoided
  5. 14. the agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research
  6. 15. A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe
  7. 16. The House Un-American Activities Committee, an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives
  8. 17. a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War
  9. 18. an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council
  10. 19. the basis of later prosecutions of members of the Communist and Socialist Workers parties
  11. 20. a foreign policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression
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  1. 1. a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the United States and the Soviet Union.
  2. 2. a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
  3. 3. a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
  4. 6. transfer from private to state ownership or control
  5. 7. the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism
  6. 8. a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
  7. 9. The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection
  8. 11. A physical boundary separating west Europe from east Europe.
  9. 13. the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence