Cold War part 1
Big 3 lay out plans for post-war reconstruction.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Effort to block Soviet Communism by supporting weaker countries.
What is Containment?
Soviet Attempt to force Western Allies out of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Commander of U.N. troops in Korea.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
Witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the investigation of Communist infiltration in Hollywood.
What is the Hollywood Ten?
Confirmation of the structure of the new United Nations.
What is Dumbarton Oaks Conference?
State of hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
U.S. and British officials flew food and supplies into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Repel communists back into North Korea.
What is the Korean U.N. Mandate?
List of people in Hollywood who were condemned for having a Communist background.
What is the Hollywood Black List?
Decided what to do with defeated Germany. Truman decides to use bomb.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The U.S. would support free people throughout the world who were resisting hostile takeovers (Greece/Turkey).
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Alliance formed by Western Nations in case of a Soviet attack.
What is NATO?
Assumption that all communist movement was directed from Moscow.
What is Monolithic Communism?
Accused of giving secret government documents to the Soviet Union.
Who is Alger Hiss?
Countries dominated by Soviet Union.
What are Satellite Nations?
Proposed that the U.S. give aid to all European countries who needed it.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Communist leader of Northern China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Committee to investigate government employees and dismiss those found to be disloyal.
What is the Loyalty Review Board?
Accused of giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Encourage Democracy, gain new markets, rebuild European Governments, and reunite Germany were all goals for this.
What were 4 U.S. aims in Europe after World War II?
Encourage Communism, rebuild Soviet economy, control Eastern Europe, and keep Germany divided were all goals of this.
What were 4 Soviet aims in Europe after World War II?
Nationalist leader of Southern China.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
Congressional committee to seek out disloyal Americans.
What is the HUAC?
Soviets take Eastern Europe, Soviets get atomic bomb, stalemate in Korea, and the Republicans gain politically were all causes for for this.
What were 4 causes of McCarthyism?