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| 593406729 | Berlin airlift | American program to deliver food and supplies to the people of the blockaded city of Berlin, Germany. | |
| 593406730 | Containment | U.S. policy uniting military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to prevent the spread of Soviet communism and to enhance America's security and influence abroad. | |
| 593406731 | domino theory | Eisenhower's prediction that if Vietnam went communist, then smaller, neighboring communities of Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, and ultimately all of Asia would fall like dominos. | |
| 593406732 | Eisenhower Doctrine | 1957 proclamation that the United States would send military aid and, if necessary, troops to any Middle Eastern nation threatened by "Communist aggression." | |
| 593406733 | George F. Kennan | American diplomat in Moscow, architect of the Cold War policy of containment. | |
| 593406734 | John Foster Dulles | Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower. He spoke of a holy war against "atheistic communism" and rejected the policy of containment. | |
| 593406735 | Korean War | War between North Korea and South Korea with heavy U.S. and Soviet involvement (1950-1953) with each seeking to undermine the other with economic pressure and military raids. | |
| 593406736 | Mao Zedong | Chinese military and political leader who established the communist People's Republic of China. | |
| 593406737 | Marshall Plan | The Truman administration's proposal for massive U.S. economic aid to speed the recovery of war-torn Europe. | |
| 593406738 | National Security Act of 1947 | Act that unified the armed forces under a single agency, later called the Department of Defense. It also established the National Security Council to advise the president on matters of national security and created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). | |
| 593406739 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | A mutual defense pact between the United States and eleven other nations—including Europe and Canada—promising to stand united in the face of military aggression, specifically by the Soviet Union. | |
| 593406740 | NSC-68 | Secret report by the National Security Council that would characterize U.S. Cold War strategy for decades; it saw the clash between the United States and the Soviet Union as a fight between good and evil and reversed post World War military demobilization, focusing instead on military build-up. | |
| 593406741 | Sputnik | Soviet satellite that was the world's first successful launch in space in 1957; it dashed the American myth of unquestioned technological superiority | |
| 593406742 | Truman Doctrine | U.S. policy designed to contain the spread of communism; began with President Truman's 1947 request to Congress for economic and military aid to the struggling countries of Greece and Turkey to prevent them from succumbing to Soviet pressure. |
