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This U.S. President joined in alliance with European countries when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949
Who is Harry Truman?
A conflict between North Vietnam (communist) and South Vietnam (non-communist). The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, but failed. South Vietnam became communist 2 years after the war ended.
What is the Vietnam War?
This country became the largest communism country in the world in 1949 when it defeated the pro-western opposition, that fled to the small island of Taiwan (Formosa).
What was China?
The war fought over the spread of communism between communist N. Korea and non-communist S. Korea; U.S. leaders thought that the Soviet Union had helped plan the attack.
What is the Korean War?
This was the economic recovery plan to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan
The U.S. president who promised to bring the troops home from Vietnam; he was elected in 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This threat joined the Soviet Union and Washington D.C. with a "red phone", after a scare concerning Cuba and the Soviet Union
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
What is communism?
After World War II, the U.S. and the Soviet Union divide Korea here.
What is the 38th parallel?
This started the Space Race between the US and USSR.
What was Sputnik?
an undistinguished legislator, he became infamous because of his unsubstantiated but politically popular charges that the government was infiltrated with communist agents, he earned the dubious distinction of having his name become synonymous with character assassination and guilt by association for political gain
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
In 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.
What was Berlin Airlift?
This was a plan to contain the spread of communism and included three parts: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and European Collective Security.
Containment Policy
This was when the Soviets cut off the roads into West Berlin in 1948.
what is the Berlin Blockade/ Berlin Wall
Crafted by Nixon and Kissinger to relax the tensions between the US, the USSR, and China
What is detente?
In order to secure Southern democratic votes during his presidential campaign, JFK chose this man as his vice president.
who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
In 1961, in an effort to oust Fidel Castro, the CIA began to covertly train Cuban exiles for a planned assault on Cuba. Castro was ready, the exiles were badly defeated, and the U.S. was rightfully blamed. This was the:
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The symbol of the differences between communist and noncommunist countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Event, pushed by the Solidarity movement, in October 1989 that inspired protests around the USSR after the fall of the East German government
What is the tearing down of the Berlin Wall?
This man was made famous during the trial linking him to communism, who assisted FDR during the Yalta Conference
Who is Alger Hiss?
American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In 1995, the U.S. government released a series of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which confirmed that one of the accused acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets
Who was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
This was the name of the Soviet satellite that was launched in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe
What was The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
What was the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact)?
This "House", previously used to look for former Nazis in the US, was reactivated during the cold war to find communists
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC)