Unit 5 Cold War EOC, Final, and CLEP 2 Review

countries under the influence and pressure of the Soviet Union during the Cold War: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.

• satellite nations

• Soviet Union expansion

• USSR

• capitalism

a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad

• containment

• exacerbate

• satellite nations

• Soviet Union expansion

America provided economic assistance to bankrupt Western Europe and vowed to halt the spread communism

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• containment

• exacerbate

democratic state agreement to provide security from Soviet Union; aka North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• NATO

• Berlin Blockade and Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

communist state agreement meant to counteract NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Berlin Blockade and Airlift

• Marshall Plan

the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit of safety before stopping

• brinkmanship

• massive retaliation

• New Look Policy

• domino theory

the group defeated by CCP/Mao Zedong moved to Taiwan, and America supported them fully

• Chiang Kai-Shek on US Policy

• Mao Zedong

• Chinese Communist Party

• CIA

American citizens suspected of having ties to the communist party would be tried in a court of law

• House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Executive Order 9835/Loyalty Order

• Second Red Scare

• Chiang Kai-Shek on US Policy

denying employment to entertainment industry professionals (actors, musicians, screen writers, directors, etc.) believed to be or to have been Communists or sympathizers

• Blacklisting

• House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Executive Order 9835/Loyalty Order

• Second Red Scare

publicizing accusations of treason and disloyalty with insufficient evidence.

• McCarthyism

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Hollywood Ten

• Blacklisting