2nd Red Scare
The policy of stopping the spread of communism
What is containment?
Response to the Berlin Blockade in which the US, GB, and France fly food and supplies into West Berlin
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Idea that if one country fell to communism so would the neighboring countries
What is the domino theory?
Near nuclear war that occurred due to miscommunication and increased tensions between the US, USSR, and Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Felony and one way that people protested serving in the Vietnam War
What is draft dodging?
Paranoia that Communists were lurking in every pocket of American life especially in the government led by a senator from Wisconsin
What is McCarthyism?
US sending aid to Turkey and Greece to stop them from falling to communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Military strategy in which one power uses the threat of a military response to encourage the other power not to attack
What is deterrence?
Project created in the Space Race with the goal of landing a man on the moon
What is Project Apollo?
Agency created to spy on the Soviet Union and was a major part of the U2 incident (US caught spying by USSR)
What is the CIA?
Couple that was prosecuted and executed for spying for the Soviet Union
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division in Europe between democratic and communist countries
What is the Iron Curtain?
Ended because Eisenhower GB, France, and Israel to withdraw from the conflict with the Soviets and Egypt
What is the Suez Canal Crisis?
Kennedy's approach to the CW to not threaten nuclear war over minor conflicts
What is the Flexible Approach?
Parallel that divides North and South Korea after the end of the Korean War
What is the 38th Parallel?
Committee that investigated alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
The defense alliance between Western European countries to support one another if any member was attacked
What is NATO?
Declaration of the US's commitment to provide aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by communism
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
Agreement between US and USSR to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere (1963)
What is the Limited Test Ban Treaty?
Rebel group in S. Vietnam that aligned themselves with communist N. Vietnam
What is the Vietcong?
Also known as the loyalty order, created to oust any communist influence in the federal government
What is Executive Order 9835?
Analysis of the motivations and actions of the USSR by a US diplomat living in Moscow
What is Kennan's Long Telegram?
Coined by Eisenhower in his farewell address in which he warns of the overwhelming influence of of the weapons industry
What is the military industrial complex?
Kennedy's Cold War policy focused on rooting out communist rebels in foreign countries
What is counterinsurgency?
Legislation that gave LBJ broad powers of war without an official declaration in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?