26.1 Origins of the Cold War
This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II.
What is the Cold War?
It began as a civil war between North and South Korea, but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and China entered to aid North Korea.
What is the Korean War?
___ could only be charged with perjury, not espionage, because too many years had passed since the spying had taken place.
Who is Alger Hiss?
This U.S. policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them.
What is brinkmanship?
This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
What are satellite nations?
This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.
What is the Berlin airlift
Line that divided Korea - Soviet Union occupied the north and United States occupied the south, during the Cold War.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The ___ decided not to cooperate with the investigation into whether the American film industry had been influenced by Communists.
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
This was intended to counterbalance the Soviet Union's growing prestige in the Middle East.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
What is the Marshall Plan?
He believed that the best way to avoid a third world war was to create a new world order in which all nations had the right of self-determination.
Who is Harry Truman?
Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976. He utilized the peasants to fight the Japanese during WWII and then to overthrow the Chinese National gov't.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Claiming to be persecuted for being Jewish and holding radical beliefs, ___ pleaded not guilty to the crime of espionage.
Who are Ethel & Julius Rosenberg?
This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold.
What is the U-2 incident?
True or False: Joseph McCarthy's downfall came after he made Communist-related accusations against the White House.
False: U.S Army.
This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime.
What is NATO?
It is an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China. It became the home of the Peoples Republic of China and Chiang Kai-Shek after being overthrown by Mao.
What is Taiwan? (Formosa)
At various times, ___ claimed to have personal knowledge of 57, 81, or 205 Communists working in the State Department.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
This U-2 pilot was convicted of espionage after his plane was shot down and he was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory.
Who is Francis Gary Powers?
True or False: The McCarren Internal Security Act made it unlawful to plan any action that might lead to the establishment of a dictatorship in the United States.
True
Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II.
General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. His major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
In 1947, ___ subpoenaed 43 witnesses from the Hollywood film industry to give testimony on whether Communists influenced the American film industry.
Who is the HUAC?
The satellite nations were members of this military alliance.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The US-Soviet competition for supremacy of the earth's orbit was known as the _______ _____.
What is the Space Race?