Vocabulary
the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
Brinkmanship
an international organization which consists of the U.S., Canada, Britain, and other European countries, all of whom have agreed to support one another if they are attacked.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
What General led troops in the Korean War?
General Douglas MacArthur
a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
This United States President faced some of the most dangerous Soviet confrontations in American History.
John F. Kennedy (JFK)
a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, the policy stated that communism needed to be isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries
Containment
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
a 1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city.
Berlin Airlift
What was the dividing line that was used to distinguish between North Korea and South Korea?
38th Parallel
a United States spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
U-2 Incident
Cuban leader established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008.
Fidel Castro
Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
Warsaw Pact
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
Truman Doctrine
This government organization investigated the film industry and claimed that Hollywood was sneaking Communist ideas into movies.
House of Un-American Activities Committee
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
Military Industrial Complex
Nixon practiced this foreign policy measure that means the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
Détente
a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Mao Zedong
This government initiative provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe with United States financial assistance.
Marshall Plan
He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate.
Joseph McCarthy
the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries ran out.
Sputnik 1
what event signaled the end of the cold war
The Fall of the Berlin Wall = November 9, 1989
the practice of making accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to communism and socialism. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.
McCarthyism
What were the goals of U.S. foreign policy in the early Cold War (4 goals)
1. Create a new world order where all nations have SELF-DETERMINATION
2. Gain access to raw materials and markets for industries
3. Rebuild European governments to ensure stability.
4. Reunite Germany for collective security and productivity for Europe.
This act made: all communist organizations had to register with the federal government. Unlawful to plan any action that might lead to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in the United states. Immigrants suspected of promoting communism or totalitarianism could be barred from entering the country or deported
McCarran Act
a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
Eisenhower Doctrine
the crowning achievement of the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of de-escalation. This treaty limited strategic missile defenses to 200 interceptors each and allowed each side to construct two missile defense sites, one to protect the national capital, the other to protect one ICBM field.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Treaty 1