Chapter 12 lesson 1 Aaliyah
1.)iron curtain:symbolic division between east and west in Europe during the Cold War.
2.)containment:policy of holding back or stopping communism.
3.)airlift:delivery of supplies by airplanes.
4.)Cold War:a war in which two enemies do not fight in combat but instead compete and conflict.
5.)subversives:attempts to overthrow or undermine a government by working secretly within that government.
6.)espionage:spying
7.)perjury:the crime of lying under oath
8.)censure:to formally criticise
9.)in 1950 republican senator Joseph McCarthy of wisconsin led the hunt for communists.
10.)many Americans came to view MCarthy as a bully with little basis for his accusations.
