Cold War 1
competition between countries to develop more weapons and military technology.
What is the Arms Race
strategy of using the threat of retaliation to prevent aggression
What is Deterrence
investigations into alleged communist infiltration of American society
What is House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
A physical barrier that separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall
intense anti-communist suspicion and persecution in the US
What is McCarthyism
countries that are politically and economically dependent on a more powerful country
What is Satellite nations?
spread of nuclear weapons and technology
What is Nuclear proliferation:
the lawyer that defended the USSR spy, Abel in US court
Who is Mr. Donovan?
The weapon that ended WW2
What was the atomic bomb?
idea that if one country falls to communism, then the neighboring countries will fall
What is domino effect
U.S foreign policy stop the spread of communisim
What is containment
Churchill's phrase to represent the division between western and eastern Europe
What is iron curtain
tension between the US and the USSR after the end of WW2
What is the cold war
lists of individuals or groups suspected of having communist sympathies or affiliations,
What is blacklists
the line that divided North and South Korea
What is the 38th parallel?
The powerful country that promoted communism
What is the USSR?