Policies
The American foreign policy of keeping Communism from spreading?
What is Containment?
Stalin blockaded West Berlin from Marshall Plan Aid. U.S solves this by airlifting supplies in for almost a year.
What is The Berlin Airlift?
USA and USSR began stockpiling hydrogen bombs, other nuclear weapons
What is Arms Race?
Provides benefits for veterans after WWII.
What is GI Bill of Rights?
He began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and helped to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis which came perilously close to escalation.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
U.S policy of granting aid to European countries fighting Communism.
What is Truman Doctrine?
U.S discovers Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is Cuban Nuclear Missile Crisis?
Soviet launched the first satellite into outer space.
U.S answered by creating NASA
Authorized funds to build an interstate highway system
What is Authorized funds to build an interstate highway system?
He led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 during the tense years of the Cold War.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Congress provides billions of $ to stabilize war-torn countries in Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The first major military conflict of the Cold War.
What is Korean War?
War in China fought between the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China.
What is Chinese Civil War.
Business that sells and distributes its product through independent retailers.
what is Franchises?
Threatening nuclear war to deter an enemy and using dangerous methods placing you on the verge of disaster.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
An anti-communist military alliance with Western Europe
What is NATO(North Atlantic treaty Organization)?
The second major military conflict of the Cold War.
What is Vietnam war?
On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a U.S. plane and called the flight an aggressive act.
What is U-2 Incident
The U.S government became concerned about the growth of Communism in United States.
What is The Second Red Scare?
He advocated "Vietnamization" but also bombed Cambodia/Laos, created a "credibility gap".
Who is Richard Nixon?
Military alliance later formed by the Soviet Union with communist Eastern Europe
What is Warsaw Pact?
Khrushchev threatened to take all of the city of Berlin.
What is The Berlin Crisis?
This symbolized the end of the cold war and the end of the Iron Curtains dominance.
What is Berlin Wall Fall?
A series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.
What is McCarthyism?
Korean leader who became president of South Korea after World War II and led Korea during Korean War.
Who is Syngman Rhee?