A People and A Nation Chp 28 Key Terms Flashcards

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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.