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- 3. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
- 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
- 8. - a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
- 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.
- 12. was created in 1938 to investigate allegedHUAC disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations
- 14. 38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea.
- 15. A vast nation that stretches from eastern Europe across the Eurasian land mass
- 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.
- 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.
- 19. American politician who served in the US Senate (1947–57), representing Wisconsin, and who lent his name to the term McCarthyism.
- 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. a nation consisting of 50 states, all but one (Hawaii) in North America.
- 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.
- 4. A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military
- 6. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
- 7. Rio Roosevelt, a river flowing north from western Brazil to the Madeira River
- 9. The Marshall Plan generated a resurgence of European industrialization and brought extensive investment into the region.
- 10. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
- 13. a fine white or translucent vitrified ceramic material.
- 18. -President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat.
- 20. war- a state of political hostility