Terms
To prevent the spread of communism is called what?
Containment
What is the difference between the first red scare and the second red scare
The first red scare formed from patriotism. Unionists went on strike. strikers were considered unionists. the second red scare took place when the US and the soviet union were the two most dominate nations.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power was known as what?
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Describe the Cold War?
an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II
the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict is known as?
Brinkmanship
What is the difference between the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
Truman Doctrine - provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Marshall Plan - to prevent the spread of communism in Western Europe and to stabilize the international order in a way favorable to the development of political democracy and free-market economies.
Overall: Marshall was to aid to stop communism were Truman was more to aid to rebuild europe
What is NATO?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
What is a satellite state?
political term for a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country
What was Sputnik?
The USSR rocketed to the lead in the Cold War's "Space Race" with the launch of Sputnik, a basketball-sized satellite that became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin
Did the Berlin Airlift - to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime to fly supply into berlin
How was Berlin divided after World War II?
The American, British and French sectors would form West Berlin and the Soviet sector became East Berlin.
Why did we create NASA?
to ensure American leadership in technology.
beat the soviet Union to the moon
Who was Alger Hiss?
Alger Hiss was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Statutes of limitations had expired for espionage
What describes a military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What is the difference between the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall?
Iron Curtain- was not actually a physical wall in most places, but it separated the communist and capitalist countries
Berlin Wall - a wall that was built right through the middle of Berlin the capital of Germany.
How did Television play a role in the 1960's election?
could tune in and watch the debates on television, or listen on the radio
Television caused those who were undecided about who to vote for to vote for John F. Kennedy. (he was pretty)
What is the Great Society Program?
The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
What were the Rosenberg spy trials?
In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage under the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917. Members of the communist party, the Rosenberg's were convicted of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in 1945.
What is Nuclear Proliferation?
the spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons technology, or fissile material to countries that do not already possess them
What is the difference between the Space Race and the Arms Race?
Space Race - the Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space.
Arms Race - a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Bonus: what was the Peace Corps?
This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development
to inspire the nation and to send a message abroad signaling the challenges of the Cold War and his hope for peace in the nuclear age.
What were the McCarthy Hearings?
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of televised hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.