Social Studies
social studies-cold war!!!
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- Red Scare
- the hunt for communists
- perjury
- lying
- stalemate
- a situation when neither side could achieve a victory
- blacklist
- list of people whose loyalty was under suspicious
- subversion
- sabotage
- House Un-American Activites Committee
- congressional committee that questioned people about their knowledgle about communists
- McCarran Act
- required all communist groups to register w/ the goverment and give a list of all members
- 38th parallel
- a latitude that divided Korea
- Joseph McCarthy
- McCarthy ruined many people's lives by accusing them of being communists
- demilitarized zone
- a region where forces couldn't enter
- Seoul
- the capital of South Korea
- Douglas MacArthur
- commanded UN troops
- censure
- formally criticize
- Julius & Ethel Rosenberg`
- a couple that was executed accused of passing secret information
- alleged
- declared without proof