Cold War
Why it is called a "cold war"
No direct military conflict between US and USSR
Douglas MacArthur
General in command of US army in Korean War
promoted the policy of brinkmanship and massive retaliation
John Foster Dulles
Duck and Cover
U.S diplomat who wanted to keep communism within its existing boarder. Coined the term Containment
George Kennan
Total blockade of of that section of the city. What city?
West Berlin
Mao Zedong, Jiang Jieshi
After the US refused to fund the Aswan dam, Egypt's government did what
Nationalized the Suez Canal
House of Rep created it to investigate possible subversive activities by fascist, Nazis, and Communist
H.U.A.C
First Red Scare Dates
1917-1920
Eastern European countries under Soviet control:
Examples: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany
Satellite States
Limited War
Policy in which the US and the USSR hoped to deter nuclear war by building enough weapons to destroy one another
M.A.D
Brother and Wife had ties with Communist Party
Senator McCarthy's down fall
the televised Army-McCarthy hearings showcased McCarthy's increasingly erratic behavior and reliance on guilt-by-association rather than evidence.
said the famous quote, "an Iron Curtain has ascended down on the continent:
Churchill
Outcome of Civil War in China
Communist Take over China. Nationalist flee the country
contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons
arms race
Charged, convicted, and executed for passing secret information about nuclear science to Soviet Union
Rosenbergs
Reason Albert Einstein opposed development of the H-bomb
Lead to both arms race and M.A.D
Examples of military alliances made for "collective security" Must have 2
NATO, SEATO, Warsaw Pact
How the Korean War began
North Korean army invaded South Korea across the 38th parallel
US policy to use force to help countries in the Middle East fend off communism
Term implying bullying tactics, reckless charges, and unsubstantiated evidence
McCarthyism
Term relating to the zone created after the Korean war
DMZ
Major event on sept 2, 1949 to change US and USSR relations
Soviet Union sets off testing of an Atomic Bomb.
In China's Civil War, the U.S. backed
The Nationalist, led by Jiang Jieshi
A consequence of covert CIA operations in Iran in the 1950s was?
Anti-U.S. sentiment
The reaction and fear that communist both outside and inside America were working to destroy American life
Second Red Scare
What best describes the underlying causes of the Cold War
Economic and Ideological differences between the US and the Soviet Union
recently used the term Iron Curtain to define their situation: current events
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy